Django setup with sqlite3?

Question

I am trying to follow the walkthrough on the django website and I downloaded sqlite and saved it in C:\Windows\System32 folder. When I edit the settings.py file what do I put for the Name field? Do I have to set up a database? The django literature say's that the API should take care of that for sqlite. When I run python manage.py syncdb I just get a bunch of errors. What am I doing wrong?

    Jason & Casey@SUPERBEAST ~/Desktop/mysite
$ python manage.py syncdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line
443, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line
382, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line
252, in fetch_command
    app_name = get_commands()[subcommand]
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line
101, in get_commands
    apps = settings.INSTALLED_APPS
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\functional.py", line 184, in
inner
    self._setup()
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 42, in _set
up
    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 93, in __in
it__
    mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\importlib.py", line 35, in im
port_module
    __import__(name)
  File "c:\Users\Jason & Casey\Desktop\mysite\mysite\settings.py", line 21
    }
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Answer 1

I haven't tried django under windows but python 2.7 surely comes with sqlite out of the box.

How to setup the database?

on the top of the file:

import os

then:

PROJECT_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'yourdatabasename.db'),
    }
}

and finally a syncdb should do the trick.

If it doesn't work, mind to paste the traceback?

Answer 2

The problem is:

  File "c:\Users\Jason & Casey\Desktop\mysite\mysite\settings.py", line 21
    }
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Check the syntax a paren or brace hasn't been closed properly around DATABASES.