after setting the var:
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=pyMyApp.settings
it works!!
Thanks a lot!
On Jul 2, 1:25 pm, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 8:25 am, Harsha Reddy <nhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I using Django from past one week.
>
> > On the Django web site, I read that it is a high-level python web
> > framework. Inspite of knowing this I am trying to use a Django
> > application both as a web application as well as a CLI client.
>
> > To know if this works out, I created a Django project named "pyMyApp"
> > and added an application into it.
> > I updated the:
>
> > settings.py to detect my application,
> > also models.py to create two tables.
>
> > I have an other python file in the application which parses XML. This
> > python file makes use of objects defined in the models.py to store the
> > parsed values in those 2 tables.
>
> > In the directory "../" where my "pyMyApp" resides, I created a file
> > index.py added the code to test the parser code. Runnning this file
> > yeilds:
>
> > python index.py
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "index.py", line 3, in ?
> > from pyAPP.translator.translate import *
> > File "/usr/src/pySCAF/translator/translate.py", line 3, in ?
> > from pySCAF.translator.models import duo, scenario
> > File "/usr/src/pySCAF/../pySCAF/translator/models.py", line 1, in ?
> > from django.db import models
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line
> > 10, in ?
> > if not settings.DATABASE_ENGINE:
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py",
> > line 269, in __getattr__
> > self._setup()
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py",
> > line 38, in _setup
> > raise ImportError("Settings cannot be imported, because
> > environment variable %s is undefined." % ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE)
> > ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable
> > DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.
>
> > By looking at the trace, I got a thought that "Django is designed to
> > be used as web framework"
> > if at all I want to use it both as cli and web apps, how to achieve
> > this in the case above?
>
> Did you try doing what the error says - setting the
> DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable?
>
> The error has nothing to do with whether you are running as a web app
> or not.
> --
> DR.
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