Cannot import settings in Django

问题

I need to test my Django app with py.test. Hence, I need to tell py.test which is Django's settings module. The command I use for py.test is: ~/GitHub/django-training$ py.test --ds=training.settings

Unfortunately, I get this error: ERROR: Could not import settings 'training.settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named training.settings

Is looks very odd, because my folder structure looks like this:

django-training
    training
        settings.py

and my sys.path contains the /home/user/GitHub/django-training entry on the first position.

Now, why can't I use that settings file?

回答1:

The training directory is probably really not on sys.path. A usual approach is to run in a virtualenv and run pip install -e . in the django-training directory, assuming it has a setup.py. But any other means which fits with your development workflow is fine.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19638858/cannot-import-settings-in-django