I am a newbie to django and I am trying to install django countries and am haveing issues. I Installed from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-countries/1.0.1. When I installe
Why did you put it into django.contrib? That's for apps that are supplied with Django.
django.contrib
Install it properly, into its own directory. Then, fix the spelling error you have made in INSTALLED_APPS: countries, not counties.
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