django.core.management error during setup

[jessicachinafile]

I'm trying to follow the great getting started instructions here: http://latimes-table-stacker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gettingstarted.html but have run into an error that I wanted to see if anyone else had overcome. I've never used django before, so apologies if this is something obvious for the more django-inclined.

Every step was working perfectly until I got to the database setup phase. When I ran this:
python manage.py syncdb
I got this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 7, in <module>
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ImportError: No module named django.core.management

is this an error that other people have run into? If so, is there an easy way to overcome it?

thanks!

[jkokenge]

Hi Jessica, that error usually comes from not having Django installed or not activating your virtualenv or something similar. It's essentially saying "Command Not Found." Make sure that you installed Django in your virtual env and not just systemwide, also.

[jessicachinafile]

Excellent, thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Will give it another shot. Best, Jessica

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[palewire]

@jkokenge is totally right. Let us know how it goes.

[jessicachinafile]

Guys -- you may or may not care, but thought I would let you know that I found this while waiting for your reply (which is not meant as a dig - you guys replied REALLY quickly): https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/ and that's what I'm using at the moment since we need to get our new section of the website up post-haste. I'm planning to return to datadesk once I have a bit more time to think about more long-term data management, but I'm sure you know how the last-minute time pressure goes . . .

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On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Ben Welsh ***@***.***> wrote: @jkokenge <https://github.com/jkokenge> is totally right. Let us know how it goes. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#133 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AZMisT5uJHFW2TfiBOlEQF0CsPc1dcSnks5rwqxpgaJpZM4M-c9w> .

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