ImportError : Couldn't import Django

Question

I have installed django==3.1.4 and activated Venv on my windows machine and it works fine in myBlog project. But today when I try to run the server, got this error

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?

but venv is already activated and when I do pip freeze > requirements.txt

It shows

asgiref==3.3.4,
Django==3.1.4,
django-crispy-forms==1.11.2,
Pillow==8.2.0,
pytz==2021.1,
sqlparse==0.4.1,

I also checked sys.path , It shows

['', 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\python38.zip', 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\DLLs', 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib', 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32', 'C:\Users\user\Desktop\myBlog\venv', 'C:\Users\user\Desktop\myBlog\venv\lib\site-packages']

Please Help to fix this

Answer 1

if you are trying to run the django server from within your IDE makesure that your virtual environment is active inside the IDE as well.

Answer 2

thanks, everybody..problem fixed..probably occurred because I did some C drive repair

I got following error

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'

I did the following steps.. to overcome my error:

1. On my main folder Check If you have already a "requiremnts.txt" file skip this step else run this command on terminal: pip freeze > requirements.txt , if it saves all your packages then only do other steps
2. Delete Venv folder from the main directory.
3. Again install virtual environments and activate Venv.
4. then run this command pip install -r requirements.txt this will install all your packages back.
5. Run again python manage.py runserver , It will work fine