Re: Problem getting django on mac (10.5/Leopard) working

On Jan 8, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Larry.Martell@gmail.com wrote:

> On Jan 7, 7:13 pm, "Larry.Mart...@gmail.com" <larry.mart...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 7:03 pm, David Markey <ad...@dmarkey.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a reason you didnt do easy_install django?
>>
>> Cause I didn't know about it. I just followed the directions I found
>> at:
>>
>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/install/
>>
>> Is there some reason that wouldn't work?
>
> I solved this by creating a symlink from /Library/Python/2.5/site-
> packages/django to my django install dir. Still not sure why that
> worked and putting the path in django.pth did not.

Python paths work by appending the search name to the end of everything in sys.path. For example, when you do `import django`, it looks for './django.py', './django/__init__.py', '/usr/local/django-trunk/django.py', '/usr/local/django-trunk/django/__init__.py', etc. None of those paths match.

>>> On 8 January 2012 01:50, Larry.Mart...@gmail.com <larry.mart...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>> I am trying to get django working on my mac. I downloaded it from SVN
>>>> to /usr/local/django-trunk and it's there:
>>
>>>> $ ls /usr/local/django-trunk/
>>>> __init__.py core http templatetags bin
>>>> db middleware test
>>>> conf dispatch shortcuts utils
>>>> contrib forms
>>>> template views
>>
>>>> I updated my site-packages with a django.pth file:
>>
>>>> $ cat /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django.pth
>>>> /usr/local/django-trunk
>>
>>>> python does have this dir in its path:
>>
>>>> $ python -c "import sys; print sys.path"
>>>> ['', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/cx_Oracle-5.0.2-py2.5-
>>>> macosx-10.5-i386.egg', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
>>>> Versions/2.5/lib/python25.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/
>>>> Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5', '/System/Library/
>>>> Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-darwin', '/
>>>> System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/
>>>> plat-mac', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/
>>>> lib/python2.5/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/
>>>> Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python', '/System/
>>>> Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-
>>>> tk', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
>>>> python2.5/lib-dynload', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages', '/usr/
>>>> local/django-trunk', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
>>>> Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC']
>>
>>>> But I still can't import it:
>>
>>>> $ python
>>>> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 5 2011, 18:37:34)
>>>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>>> import django
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>> ImportError: No module named django
>>
>>>> What am I missing or doing wrong?
>>
>>>> TIA!
>>>> -larry
>>
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