My PyCharm IDE doesn't automatically create a venv directory so I have to manually create my own.
My venv directory comes up as ignored. This is normal.
A possible solution is found the comment section.
When creating a PyCharm Project Django and virtualenv were installed. I did not have to install Django. So now Python3 needs a clean up.
Update: I've been having issues with PyCharm IDE for a while now and I want to be sure is the sys.path:
From PyCharm IDE terminal:
>>> python3
>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.path)
['', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/home/name/Projects/bye/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages', '/home/name/Projects
/bye/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools-40.8.0-py3.7.egg', '/home/name/Projects/bye/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip-19.0.3-py3.7.egg']
Despite the directory being created I still get this result:
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?"
The ImportError is generated by line 6 of the following Python 3 code, not necessarily by the code but rather by the from django.core.management import on line 4.
def main():
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'Example.settings')
try:
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
except ImportError as exc:
raise 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?"
) from exc
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'Example.settings')
application = get_wsgi_application()
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'Example.urls'
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]
,
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'Example.wsgi.application'
