I am glad to announce that it works now ! The error was an addition random 'qq' that somehow appeared in my settings.py file on line 44. Once I spotted and removed it , the code works. I have pasted the entire successful piece of code here for viewing and discussion ...
CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:~ CaiGengYang$ cd mysite folder CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:mysite CaiGengYang$ ls manage.py mysite CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:mysite CaiGengYang$ python manage.py migrate Operations to perform: Synchronize unmigrated apps: staticfiles, messages Apply all migrations: admin, contenttypes, auth, sessions Synchronizing apps without migrations: Creating tables... Running deferred SQL... Installing custom SQL... Running migrations: Rendering model states... DONE Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK Applying auth.0001_initial... OK Applying admin.0001_initial... OK Applying contenttypes.0002_remove_content_type_name... OK Applying auth.0002_alter_permission_name_max_length... OK Applying auth.0003_alter_user_email_max_length... OK Applying auth.0004_alter_user_username_opts... OK Applying auth.0005_alter_user_last_login_null... OK Applying auth.0006_require_contenttypes_0002... OK Applying sessions.0001_initial... OK CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:mysite CaiGengYang$ On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 2:20:39 PM UTC+8, Andrea D'Amore wrote: > On 2015-09-28 05:26:35 +0000, Cai Gengyang said: > > > File "/Users/CaiGengYang/mysite/mysite/settings.py", line 45 > > > > 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', > > > > ^ > > > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > The syntax looks fine in the pastebin, did you possibly copy text from > web thus pasting smartquotes or unprintables in your source file? > > > -- > Andrea -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list