running manage.py with virtual environment

[Satheesan Varier]

Virtual Environment : Windows Powershell 5.0 / virtualenvironmentwrapper-powershell
Python : 2.7.12 / Django: 1.10.4

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Outside venvs the following are installed
virtualenv==15.1.0
virtualenvwrapper-powershell==12.7.8

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Inside venv, Django is installed

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django-admin startproject mysite

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manage.py shell ( throws ImportError )

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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?"
    )

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Observation 1 : Even though manage.py is unable to import Django
if we open a python shell, we can import django

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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.

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Issue : manage.py should get Django from the virtualenv

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[Tim Graham]

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