I have django 1.4 installed on my rhel 5. By default rhel 5 has python 2.4 in it but to use django 1.4 I manually installed python 2.7.3 The development server is running fine but when I create a new project and after changing the settings.py file as :
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 'NAME': '/home/oracle/Desktop/test1/my.db'
Now when I give python2.7 manage.py syncdb command, I get the error as:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 10, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 443, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 261, in fetch_command klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 69, in load_command_class module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module __import__(name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 8, in <module> from django.core.management.sql import custom_sql_for_model, emit_post_sync_signal File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/sql.py", line 6, in <module> from django.db import models File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 40, in <module> backend = load_backend(connection.settings_dict['ENGINE']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 34, in __getattr__ return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 92, in __getitem__ backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 24, in load_backend return import_module('.base', backend_name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module __import__(name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 31, in <module> raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading either pysqlite2 or sqlite3 modules (tried in that order): %s" % exc) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading either pysqlite2 or sqlite3 modules (tried in that order): No module named _sqlite3 Please suggest the way out?