strange error with django-admin.py startproject myproject. Run with /bin/zsh

[lucassrod@…]

Hi,
Today I was testing a install application django with virtualenv, pip. I run Ubuntu Os 12.04, with /bin/zsk and ​https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.

Look my steps:

$ virtualenv --distribute project
New python executable in project4/bin/python
Installing distribute.............................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip...............done.



$ cd project/

$ source bin/activate

$ sudo pip install yolk
Downloading/unpacking yolk
  Downloading yolk-0.4.3.tar.gz (86Kb): 86Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package yolk
    
    warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'tests'
    warning: no files found matching '*.conf' under directory 'docs'
    warning: no files found matching '*.css_t' under directory 'docs'
    warning: no files found matching 'indexsidebar.html' under directory 'docs'
    warning: no files found matching 'tests/test_cli.py'
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): distribute in ./lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg (from yolk)
Installing collected packages: yolk
  Running setup.py install for yolk
    
    warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'tests'
    warning: no files found matching '*.conf' under directory 'docs'
    warning: no files found matching '*.css_t' under directory 'docs'
    warning: no files found matching 'indexsidebar.html' under directory 'docs'
    warning: no files found matching 'tests/test_cli.py'
    Installing yolk script to /home/lucas/workspace-django/project4/bin
Successfully installed yolk
Cleaning up...



$ sudo pip install Django
Downloading/unpacking Django
  Downloading Django-1.4.tar.gz (7.6Mb): 7.6Mb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package Django
    
Installing collected packages: Django
  Running setup.py install for Django
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/django-admin.py from 644 to 755
    
    changing mode of /home/lucas/workspace-django/project4/bin/django-admin.py to 755
Successfully installed Django
Cleaning up...

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Here shows the problem

$ django-admin.py startproject myproject

$ cd myproject/

(project)➜  myproject  ls
__init__.py  manage.py  settings.py  urls.py
(project)➜  myproject  tree
.
├── __init__.py
├── manage.py
├── settings.py
└── urls.py

$ yolk -l
Django          - 1.4          - active 
Python          - 2.7.3        - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload)
argparse        - 1.2.1        - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7)
distribute      - 0.6.24       - active 
pip             - 1.1          - active 
wsgiref         - 0.1.2        - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7)
yolk            - 0.4.3        - active 


$ cat manage.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
from django.core.management import execute_manager
import imp
try:
    imp.find_module('settings') # Assumed to be in the same directory.
except ImportError:
    import sys
    sys.stderr.write("Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py' in the directory containing %r. It appears you've customized things.\nYou'll have to run django-admin.py, passing it your settings module.\n" % __file__)
    sys.exit(1)

import settings

if __name__ == "__main__":
    execute_manager(settings)

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the file manage.py does not appear like a official manage.py in version django[1] 1.4.

And the structure of the folder myproject its strange. ==

Official:
manage.py
myapp/
    __init__.py
    models.py
mysite/
    __init__.py
    settings.py
    urls.py

My test app:
(project)➜  myproject  tree
.
├── __init__.py
├── manage.py
├── settings.py
└── urls.py

Totally different.

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There are other thing that I did test. If I run this steps:

$ /bin/bash

// Suppose I was in the folder myproject

$ source ../bin/activate

$ cd ..

$ ls
bin  include  lib  local  myproject

$ django-admin.py startproject myproject2

$ cd myproject2

$ ls
manage.py  myproject2
$ tree
.
├── manage.py
└── myproject2
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── settings.py
    ├── urls.py
    └── wsgi.py

1 directory, 5 files

OOOOOOOOOHHHHH JESUS !!!! It's Work!!

I can't understand this error or bug but I need to share to devel departament django

[1]​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4/

[Alireza Savand]

This happening to me, when i using virtualenv to create vm, on my system virtualenv is making a frsh python3 environment, So i using virtualenv2 instead, that will create fresh python2 env ;)
And no it's not a bug!

[lucassrod@…]

Replying to Alir3z4:

This happening to me, when i using virtualenv to create vm, on my system virtualenv is making a frsh python3 environment, So i using virtualenv2 instead, that will create fresh python2 env ;)
And no it's not a bug!

Can you tell-me how do you solved this?

[Ramiro Morales]

It is most surely you have a previous global installation of Django already and things are mixing up. You need to manually cleanup any older Django version you had installed.

We are trying to figure out how to get the Django installation process/procedure to do/document that in #18115. I'm closing this ticket as duplicate.

Related to this: Why are you running your pip install Packages with sudo? I suspect with that you are installing Django to the global level.

Precisely the point of using virtualenv (i.e. creating a virtual environment and activating it) is to be able to install these packages locally (inside the virtualenv) and as a normal user.

[Alireza Savand]

Replying to lucassrod@…:

Replying to Alir3z4:

This happening to me, when i using virtualenv to create vm, on my system virtualenv is making a frsh python3 environment, So i using virtualenv2 instead, that will create fresh python2 env ;)
And no it's not a bug!

Can you tell-me how do you solved this?

I told that already, i was using virtual-venv which at my Operation system will makes a fresh python3 env, So after a while i found out there is also a virtual-venv2 that working with python2 that gonna makes a fresh python2 env that django will works on it.

And of course this issue have nothing to do with django.