Django error in django-social-auth

Question

I am newbie in Django. I am implementing the facebook authentication in my app. The Error that i am getting in my terminal output is like ;

File "./manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 350, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 324, in execute
    django.setup()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/__init__.py", line 18, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 108, in populate
    app_config.import_models(all_models)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 202, in import_models
    self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/social_auth/models.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.utils.importlib import import_module
ImportError: No module named importlib 

What i am doing wrong? IS my newly installed django-python-social installed correctly?

Answer 1

It seems like django-social-auth have already issues with django 1.8, so I don't wonder if it has problems with django 1.9. I will recommand to use django-allauth since it's the most used/rated package for social network, and it's easy to configure:

1. pip install django-allauth

2. settings.py config

   TEMPLATES = [
   {
       'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
       'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
       'APP_DIRS': True,
       'OPTIONS': {
           'context_processors': [
               ....
               "django.core.context_processors.request",
               # allauth specific context processors
               "allauth.account.context_processors.account",
               "allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount",
           ],
       },
   },]
   
   AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
       # Default backend 
       "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend",
       # `allauth` specific authentication methods, such as login by e-mail
       "allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend",
   )
   
   INSTALLED_APPS += (
       # The Django sites framework is required
       'django.contrib.sites',
       'allauth',
       'allauth.account',
       'allauth.socialaccount',
        # Login Facebook provider
        'allauth.socialaccount.providers.facebook',
   )
   SITE_ID = 1
   

3. in urls.py add:

   urlpatterns = patterns('',
       ...
       #Auth URLS
       url(r'^accounts/', include('allauth.urls')),
   )
   

4. Finally apply database migration

5. run server and go to the admin interface at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/sites/site and create a Site for the localhost, 127.0.0.1:8000, or your website domain for production. It should have an id equal to the SITE_ID configured before in the setting.

6. Configure your facebook app to get secret key, and then create a Social Application for Facebook at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/socialaccount/socialapp

--> you may also find this tutoriel useful

Answer 2

django-social-auth has officially been deprecated in favour of python-social-auth. So you should not be using it. Moreover the import error is most probably due to incompatibility with Django 1.9 as importlib has been deprecated from django.