django-axes installed, but axes.middleware module not available

Question

I recently refactored a lot of code and wanted a clean environment, so I deleted and recreated the database schema, created a new venv, and installed dependencies from pip3 one-by-one so I didn't have any superfluous packages left over from the old environment. I quickly installed half a dozen packages, then migrate passed. However, runserver complaines that axes.middleware isn't found (it is installed).

• I have django-axes 2.2.0 installed in my virtual environment (Edit: python 3.5, django 1.10).
• I verfied the installation was present with pip3 freeze , after uninstalling and reinstalling just to be sure. django-axes==2.2.0
• I have axes listed in INSTALLED_APPS

• I have axes.middleware.FailedLoginMiddleware listed in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES . Note that if I comment out this line, django doesn't attempt to import axes.middleware and consequently runserver succeeds.

• I can do import axes; axes.get_version() import axes; axes.get_version() and also from axes.decorators import watch_login on the shell, so clearly axes is available to the environment.

What is going wrong here?

Traceback from ./manage.py runserver :

Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x7f2d43a381e0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/webapps/my_app/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 49, in get_internal_wsgi_application
    return import_string(app_path)
  File "/webapps/my_app/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/module_loading.py", line 20, in import_string
    module = import_module(module_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/webapps/my_app/wsgi.py", line 14, in <module>
    application = get_wsgi_application()
  File "/webapps/my_app/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 14, in get_wsgi_application
    return WSGIHandler()
  File "/webapps/my_app/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 153, in __init__
    self.load_middleware()
  File "/webapps/my_app/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 56, in load_middleware
    mw_class = import_string(middleware_path)
  File "/webapps/my_app/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/module_loading.py", line 20, in import_string
    module = import_module(module_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 956, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'axes.middleware'

Answer 1

As of 2.0.0, django-axes has default_app_config so you can just use axes in INSTALLED_APPS without installing middleware. Hence, delete the relevant MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES line in settings.py