Hi, I followed the set up video for the second part of the django course until I try to install the rest framework and try to start the web server. I’ve configured everything as shown in the video and am getting the following error:
Exception in thread django-main-thread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py”, line 15, in
import MySQLdb as Database
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/init.py”, line 17, in
from . import _mysql
ImportError: cannot import name ‘_mysql’ from partially initialized module ‘MySQLdb’ (most likely due to a circular import) (/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/MySQLdb/init.py)
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/threading.py”, line 973, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File “/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/threading.py”, line 910, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py”, line 64, in wrapper
fn(*args, **kwargs)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py”, line 125, in inner_run
autoreload.raise_last_exception()
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py”, line 87, in raise_last_exception
raise _exception[1]
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py”, line 394, in execute
autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)()
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py”, line 64, in wrapper
fn(*args, **kwargs)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/init.py”, line 24, in setup
apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py”, line 116, in populate
app_config.import_models()
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/config.py”, line 269, in import_models
self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
File “/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/importlib/init.py”, line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 1030, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 1007, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 680, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 850, in exec_module
File “”, line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/models.py”, line 1, in
from django.contrib.sessions.base_session import AbstractBaseSession, BaseSessionManager
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/contrib/sessions/base_session.py”, line 26, in
class AbstractBaseSession(models.Model):
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py”, line 143, in new
new_class.add_to_class(“_meta”, Options(meta, app_label))
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py”, line 371, in add_to_class
value.contribute_to_class(cls, name)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/models/options.py”, line 243, in contribute_to_class
self.db_table, connection.ops.max_name_length()
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/connection.py”, line 15, in getattr
return getattr(self._connections[self._alias], item)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/connection.py”, line 62, in getitem
conn = self.create_connection(alias)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/utils.py”, line 193, in create_connection
backend = load_backend(db[“ENGINE”])
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/utils.py”, line 113, in load_backend
return import_module(“%s.base” % backend_name)
File “/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/importlib/init.py”, line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “/Users/ifanmorgan/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront2-0Gp-UIog/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py”, line 17, in
raise ImproperlyConfigured(
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module.
Did you install mysqlclient?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks