from django.template import Template: gives error

[ashutosa@…]

In interactive shell: when I write:

from django.template import Template

it is giving me following error: any help would be great!

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Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\template\init.py", line 918, in <module>

add_to_builtins('django.template.defaultfilters')

File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\template\init.py", line 915, in add_to_builtins

builtins.append(get_library(module_name))

File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\template\init.py", line 904, in get_library

mod = import(module_name, {}, {}, [])

File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\template\defaultfilters.py", line 5, in <module>

from django.utils.translation import gettext

File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\init.py", line 3, in <module>

if settings.USE_I18N:

File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\conf\init.py", line 28, in getattr

self._import_settings()

File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\conf\init.py", line 53, in _import_settings

raise EnvironmentError, "Environment variable %s is undefined." % ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE

EnvironmentError: Environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

[Matt McClanahan <cardinal@…>]

The ticket tracker is not the place for support questions. Please see the django-users mailing list at ​http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/

What you're missing, though, is setting the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable (And probably also adding your project to your pythonpath)