My problem was that django_0.96.1 contained the contents of http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tags/releases/0.96.1/django, and not http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tags/releases/0.96.1.

I’m going to use this technique from now on, instead of junctions. Much thanks for the pointer!

John

A couple quick bits:

* I have Python installed at C:\Program Files\Python25\
* The Django repository (http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django) is checked out into C:\Projects\Django\
* My django.pth file, located under ${install_path}\Lib\site-packages\ contains a single line C:\Projects\Django\trunk\

After doing that and opening a new Python shell, sys.path shows:

['', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python25.zip', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python25\\DLLs', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python25\\lib', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python25\\lib\\plat-win','C:\\Program Files\\Python25\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python25', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages','C:\\Projects\\Django\\trunk']

One difference I can see at the moment, is that I’m using an absolute path to the Django source code and you’re using a relative one. Of course, once the site package reads either value in, they are both showing what I’d consider an appropriate value.

Just to be sure, you’d need to have your django_0.96.1 directory pointing at the source found in http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tags/releases/0.96.1/, ie that a folder named django exists under it. If you’re pointing that directory into http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tags/releases/0.96.1/django/, I don’t believe it’ll work.

Regards,
Al.

Here’s my setup:

* I have Python25\Lib\site-packages\django_versions\django_0.96.1, and …\django_versions\trunk\django. Each of these folders just what you think they contain. :-)

* …\Lib\site-packages\django.pth contains:

# Django path file
django_versions\django_0.96.1

The problem: Python can’t find Django. (E.g., “Import Error: No module names django.core”) I’ve tried forward and backward slashes, no difference. sys.path appears to have what it ought to have:

>>> sys.path
['', 'c:\\python25\\lib\\site-packages\\setuptools-0.6c3-py2.5.egg', 'f:\\tm\\trunk\\src', 'f:\
\tm\\trunk\\src\\webcode', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python25.zip', 'c:\\python25\\DLLs', 'c:\\py
thon25\\lib', 'c:\\python25\\lib\\plat-win', 'c:\\python25\\lib\\lib-tk', 'c:\\python25', 'c:\\
python25\\lib\\site-packages', 'c:\\python25\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL', 'c:\\python25\\lib\\sit
e-packages\\django_versions\\django_0.96.1', 'c:\\python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'c:\\py
thon25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'c:\\python25\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'c:\\py
thon25\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.7.2-msw-ansi']

What am I doing wrong?