unable to import Django.shortcuts

Question

I was working on my first django project using the documentation. I am getting this error while importing django modules. I'm sure that django is successfully installed in my virtual environment. The error is:

Unable to import 'django.shortcuts'
Unable to import 'django.http'
Unable to import 'django.contrib'
Unable to import 'django.urls'

Answer 1

If you look in your status bar you will notice you selected your global install of Python 3.7.4 and not a virtual environment. If you click on that you can then choose your virtual environment that you installed Django into.

Answer 2

You selected your global install of Python 3.7.4 and not a virtual environment. If you click on that you can then choose your virtual environment that you installed Django into.

Answer 3

Solution 2: (open VS Code from an activated virtual environment):

1. Open the terminal window
2. Activate the relevant python virtual environment
3. Ensure Pylint is installed within this virtual environment pip install pylint
4. Close all instances of VS Code
5. Launch VS Code from within this terminal window

(this will ensure the VS Code process will inherit all of the Virtual Env environment settings)