Configure Django-rest

Question

I trying to setup DJango restframework in a windows machine and I get the following error when I run the code,

Steps done.

1. Downloaded rest-framework & other utilities from github

2. Using easy_install I installed all the packages.

   Here is the confirmation msg,

   C:\Python27\Scripts>easy_install django-rest Searching for django-rest Best match: django-rest 0.0.1 Processing django_rest-0.0.1-py2.7.egg django-rest 0.0.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

   Using c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django_rest-0.0.1-py2.7.egg Processing dependencies for django-rest Finished processing dependencies for django-rest

3. Created a new project firstwebservice which created all the files.

4. Edited settings.py file and included django rest as given below,

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       'django.contrib.auth',
       'django.contrib.contenttypes',
       'django.contrib.sessions',
       'django.contrib.sites',
       'django.contrib.messages',
       'django.contrib.staticfiles',
       'rest_framework',
       # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
       # 'django.contrib.admin',
       # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
       # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
   )
   

5. Ran the project

   Error:-No module named rest_framework...
   

Answer 1

is rest_framework actually installed and on your PYTHONPATH?

That looks like a basic import error.

Suggest you:

Double check everything's installed correctly, by running "manage.py shell" and trying both "import rest_framework" and "from rest_framework import authtoken".

I would install with pip not easy if you can, easy has given me many issues like this before.

sudo pip install djangorestframework

Answer 2

You're installing the wrong package. The package is named djangorestframework, not django-rest.