ImportError: cannot import name simplejson. I am using django v1.8 and django-Select2 v4.3.1

Question

My error( command python manage.py runserver) - File "/Users/username/virtual-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jsonfield/fields.py", line 3, in from django.utils import simplejson as json ImportError: cannot import name simplejson

I tried solutions from these two posts but they did not work in my case Cannot import name simplejson - After installing simplejson How to solve the ImportError: cannot import name simplejson in Django

Answer 1

If this error was in your own code, then you would simply change

from django.utils import simplejson as json

to

import json

after upgrading to Django 1.5 or later.

However, in your case, it looks like the problem is that you've have an old version of django-jsonfield installed. If you upgrade to the latest version (currently 1.03), it should fix the problem.

Answer 2

Use import json as simplejson instead

As of django 1.5, simplejson is no longer in django.utils module. So, just use python's JSON module instead.