'NAME': 'C:/Users/songbird/Desktop/bdd/' # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
You're using a SQLite database, so you've to provide the full path to SQLite database file, for example: 'NAME': 'C:/Users/songbird/Desktop/bdd/mydb.db3' instead only the path to directory. 2011/11/1 Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar <nik.mol...@consbio.org>: > Hi Nicolas, > > It looks like you have a syntax error in your settings file. It's > possible you left of a comma after one of your dictionary values, or > didn't close a brace. I can't tell for sure without more context: could > you please provide the complete "DATABASES" section of your settings file? > > On 11/1/2011 9:46 AM, Nicolas wrote: >> Dear all, >> I'm completly new to the world of django and python. >> I'm trying to go through the tuto "Writing your first Django app, part >> 1" and of course I have an error. >> This error happens in the step "database setup". I edited the settings >> file, wrote 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' for engine and a path to a db >> file (as it's said in the tuto that "If the file doesn't exist, it >> will automatically be created when you synchronize the database for >> the first time" I just set a path to an empty folder). >> And then, I run manage.py syncdb and I get this : >> >> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\mysite>manage.py syncdb >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\mysite\manage.py", >> line 9, in < >> module> >> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management >> \__init__.py", line >> 422, in execute_from_command_line >> utility.execute() >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management >> \__init__.py", line >> 361, in execute >> self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management >> \__init__.py", line >> 234, in fetch_command >> app_name = get_commands()[subcommand] >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management >> \__init__.py", line >> 102, in get_commands >> apps = settings.INSTALLED_APPS >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py", >> line 185, in >> inner >> self._setup() >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line >> 42, in _set >> up >> self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module) >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line >> 90, in __in >> it__ >> mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE) >> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\importlib.py", line >> 35, in im >> port_module >> __import__(name) >> File "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\mysite\mysite >> \settings.py", lin >> e 15 >> 'NAME': 'C:/Users/songbird/Desktop/bdd/' # Or path to database >> file if using sqlite3. >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >> I'm on windows 7. >> So, my question is simple: what am I doing wrong? >> Thanks a lot in advance. >> Best >> -Nicolas- >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
