You need to have a settings file specified.  Read this:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/

If you have a project, you need to make sure you are in the project
directory and using ./manage.py shell so all the right stuff gets
loaded up for you.

Michael Trier
blog.michaeltrier.com

On Dec 21, 2007 11:46 AM, newDjangoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am experiencing an error when I try to run the following:
>
> >>> from django.db import connection
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> python2.5/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
>     if not settings.DATABASE_ENGINE:
>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> python2.5/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 28, in
> __getattr__
>     self._import_settings()
>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
> python2.5/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in
> _import_settings
>     raise EnvironmentError, "Environment variable %s is undefined." %
> ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE
> EnvironmentError: Environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is
> undefined.
> >>>
>
> Not sure how to remedy this
>
>
>
> >
>

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