# python manage.py test
Creating test database...
Creating table auth_permission
Creating table auth_group
Creating table auth_user
Creating table auth_message
Creating table django_content_type
Creating table django_session
Creating table django_site
Installing index for auth.Permission model
Installing index for auth.Message model
EE..E...EEEEEEE..................
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ERROR: test_password_change_fails_with_invalid_old_password (django.contrib.auth.tests.views.ChangePasswordTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/tests/views.py", line 156, in test_password_change_fails_with_invalid_old_password
    'new_password2': 'password1',
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 313, in post
    response = self.request(**r)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 92, in get_response
    response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py", line 78, in __call__
    return self.view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/views.py", line 160, in password_change
    }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/shortcuts/__init__.py", line 20, in render_to_response
    return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs), **httpresponse_kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 103, in render_to_string
    t = get_template(template_name)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 81, in get_template
    source, origin = find_template_source(template_name)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 74, in find_template_source
    raise TemplateDoesNotExist, name
TemplateDoesNotExist: registration/password_change_form.html
...

In total 10 tests failed. At first I thought this was wrong. There must be something wrong with my Django installation. I consulted the Django documentation on testing Django apps and all I could pick up was that when you run python manage.py test it runs the tests of all your INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file.

After a bit of searching, I saw a ticket was created for this and was closed with a wontfix resolution. It made sense since it is test cases that was not implemented yet. Doh! Test Driven Development.

I do think it could be useful if they added this to the Django docs as a note for n00bs like me.

ImportError: Could not import settings 'mysite.settings'
(Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?):
No module named mysite.settings

My wsgi file looked like this:

import os, sys
sys.path.append('/home/djangoprojects/mysite/')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi

_application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

def application(environ, start_response):
    if environ['wsgi.url_scheme'] == 'https':
        environ['HTTPS'] = 'on'
    return _application(environ, start_response)

Like an idiot, I was looking everywhere for the issue, accept the glaring obvious reason. I checked permissions, created a .pth file for the project in the /site-packages/ directory in the Python library. Trust me, I did everything, but the obvious thing.

See, here is that obvious reason:

I append the directory “/home/djangoprojects/mysite” to my sys.path which is wrong. Python then looks for the module “mysite” in the directory /home/djangoprojects/mysite which in fact doesn’t exist. Obvious, no?

To fix this problem, you need to append the directory “/home/djangoprojects/” to your sys.path and it will find the module mysite.settings no problem and it will run smooth.

Long weekend, surf on the brain. That’s what is wrong!

Therefore, I’m putting my Django blog on the back-burner for now as I dearly love it, but at the same time I simply do not have time to tinker. I will tinker in future if and only if there is spare time. Of which there is none.

I came to the realisation that it is much more important at the moment to write/blog than what it is to tinker with Django. Afrigator has become a very serious “project” all of a sudden, thus I cannot simply tinker as I feel anymore. I need to focus and need to communicate.

Fortunately for me, I’m still very much busy with Python stuff on the Afrigator back-end, so I’m not COMPLETELY miffed about it! In fact, I’m loving it…

Oh and if you wondered about the picture and where the hell it fits in with all this, forget about it… I just like the pic as I’m proud of my son’s catch. Not everything in life HAS to make sense now, does it?