DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined

[Gwildor]

I can't manage to get django-image-cropping to run. After installation and configuration of my settings.py file, I'm getting the following error:

ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

[jonasvp]

This is probably because of a syntax or other problem in your settings.py. Try running "python" and then "import settings" to see what errors it throws.

What version of easy_thumbnails are you running? (Check the output of "pip freeze"). Version 1.0 changed some settings, you might want to try the old version: dce62a5

[Gwildor]

First of all, thanks for your fast reaction (too bad I didn't see it just as fast).

Importing settings returns no errors. I forgot to mention this but I'm working on a project which was working fine until I attempted to use django-image-cropping, and actually worked fine again when I commented everything related to it in my settings file, so I really really doubt there is something wrong on that end.

As for my easy_thumbnails version, I'm using version 1.0.3. Can you tell me which version of it might be worth attempting?

[jonasvp]

No, 1.0.3 is fine. When exactly does the error occur? And what did you add to the settings.py?

[Gwildor]

It occurs immediately when I try to run Django form the shell. I added everything from the readme from points 2 and 3 (although I had the import as the second line, not immediately above the THUMBNAIL_PROCESSORS = ...), both from the readme in the master branch as the readme in the django-1.4-compatibility branch (so I tried both the "thumbnail_settings" version and the "defaults" version).

My Django version is 1.4.1, does that bring compatibility issues?

[jonasvp]

No, Django 1.4.1 is fine. Sorry, can't really think of anything more to check. Main thing would be to try and find out what error is causing ./manage.py to bail. Maybe step through the settings with pdb.set_trace().

It's interesting that importing the settings directly doesn't throw any errors but I can't think of anything that would cause this behavior. Is there any public code I could see? Maybe a diff of the settings after adding the image-cropping-related constants?

[Gwildor]

That's too bad, but thanks for your help.

Sorry, there isn't any code which can be publicly available.

[jonasvp]

Well, good luck! Would love for you to check back when you found the problem, maybe others have the same issue.