Django 1.9 No module named 'django.urls'

Question

Trying to install pcapdb on a fresh debian install (requires django==1.9) installed via 'sudo pip3 install django==1.9' Other parts of django can be imported without issue eg django.conf, django.db, django.utils, etc.

Output of 'pip3 list | grep -i django'

Django (1.9)
django-auth-ldap-ng (1.7.6)
django-braces (1.12.0)
django-celery (3.2.2)
django-filebrowser (3.9.1)
django-grappelli (2.10.2)
django-hosts (3.0)
django-url-tools (0.0.8)
djangorestframework (3.7.7)
djangorestframework-jwt (1.11.0)

pip3 --version

pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.6)

django version from interpreter

import django
print(django.get_version())
# 1.9

Ideas?

Edit: The code in question is a dependency for pcapDB, not my code. See one of the files in question (django.urls imports) here

Answer 1

Try this line in urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url

There is no module name django.urls in before django2 , urls are present in django.conf package.

Starting Django-2.0

urls are part of django.urls .

Answer 2

In django 1.9 version or above until 1.11 version url module was in the django.conf package. In new release 2.0 version, it merged into django.url .
So now you can use from django.urls import include, path, re_path in your URLconfs .

for more info, you can check the release note.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/2.0/#what-s-new-in-django-2-0