Setting up Django with Eclipse - "Django not found"

Question

I'm trying to setup Django with Eclipse. Right now I'm creating a new Pydev Django project, and getting "Django not found" error message.

When I try to verify Django is integrated via the command line, it works.

>>> import django
>>> print django.get_version()
1.2.5

I have exactly two python installations, 2.7 and 3.2, and I'm sure I'm using 2.7 from Eclipse (and the command line). What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you added the python interpreter before installing django, you can get this error message. Remove the python interpreter from eclipse and add it again. Eclipse will do some caching/searching of some sort. This solved my same problem.

Answer 2

In my case I use virtualenv and a custom local version of easy_install to avoid needing to be root. I have Django installed in ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/. I added this path in Eclipse in the PyDev interpreter.

However, this did not fix the problem. It turned out that I needed to explicitly add the Django directory as well (ie: ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.6.2-py2.7.egg/).

So remember to explicitly select the Django directory in PyDev interpreter especially if you have stuff customized in some fashion.