id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 27591 running manage.py with virtual environment Satheesan Varier nobody "Virtual Environment : Windows Powershell 5.0 / virtualenvironmentwrapper-powershell Python : 2.7.12 / Django: 1.10.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outside venvs the following are installed virtualenv==15.1.0 virtualenvwrapper-powershell==12.7.8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside venv, Django is installed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- django-admin startproject mysite ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- manage.py shell ( throws ImportError ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {{{ try: import django except ImportError: 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?"" ) }}} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation 1 : Even though manage.py is unable to import Django if we open a python shell, we can import django -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Observation 2 : If we pip install Django outside the venv redundantly then manage.py will not throw ImportError on any of the manage.py commands. it will pickup django from there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue : manage.py should get Django from the virtualenv -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Uncategorized closed Uncategorized 1.10 Normal invalid Django, Virtualenv, Powershell Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 1 0