Couldn't import Django error when I try to startapp

Question

I usually work on PC's but started to work on projects on my mac. I run Python 3 and when I started a new project I did the following:

1) In main project folder, installed virtualenv and activated it.

2) Install Django and Gunicorn

3) Did startproject

When I try to python3 manage.py startapp www I get an error that Django could not be imported. Below is what was in the terminal:

(venv) AB:directory AB$ pip freeze
Django==1.10
gunicorn==19.6.0

(venv) AB:directory AB$ ls
directory   manage.py

(venv) AB:directory AB$ python3 manage.py startpap www

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 8, in <module>
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ImportError: No module named 'django'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 14, in <module>
    import django
ImportError: No module named 'django'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 17, in <module>
    "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?

Answer 1

Try using

python -m pip install django

This is the safest way as far as I know

Answer 2

I had the same problem, make sure you activated virtualenv, since once you close cmd it is no longer activated:

env\\Scripts\\activate in cmd

Now cmd should have (env) just like this: (env) c:\\users\\user\\PROJECT\\..

Now you can type: python manage.py runserver

Answer 3

I also had the same problem when I use Pycharm. I solved it by adding:

import sys
  sys.path.append('/Users/et/PycharmProjects/Jieba_Analyzer/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages')

to manage.py