ImportError: no module named south

Question

When I run syncdb I get the error message `ImportError: No module named south. Any advice? Django 1.5.1 and Python 2.7.5

I think South is already installed because I just ran easy_install south and got

 [ ckoziak@web415 mvp_landing]$ easy_install south Searching for south Best match: South 0.8.1 Processing South-0.8.1-py2.4.egg South 0.8.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Using /home/ckoziak/lib/python2.4/South-0.8.1-py2.4.egg Processing dependencies for south Finished processing dependencies for south 

But before that, I ran pip install south and got:

 [ ckoziak@web415 mvp_landing]$ ls join manage.py mvp_landing static [ ckoziak@web415 mvp_landing]$ pip install south Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ckoziak/bin/pip", line 7, in ? sys.exit( File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 277, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2180, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1913, in load entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__']) File "/home/ckoziak/lib/python2.4/pip-1.4-py2.4.egg/pip/__init__.py", line 10, in ? from pip.util import get_installed_distributions, get_prog File "/home/ckoziak/lib/python2.4/pip-1.4-py2.4.egg/pip/util.py", line 17, in ? from pip.vendor.distlib import version File "/home/ckoziak/lib/python2.4/pip-1.4-py2.4.egg/pip/vendor/__init__.py", line 8 from __future__ import absolute_import SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file 

'south' is in my settings file. I have local and live versions with __init__ connecting them

__init__ :

 from .base import * try: from .local import * except: pass try: from .live import * except: pass 

.local (settings file), minus db info:

 MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "media") STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "static-only") STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "static"), ) TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "templates"), ) INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: 'django.contrib.admin', # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'south', 'join', ) 

.live (settings file) no db not yet installed:

 MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "media") STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "static-only") STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "static"), ) TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))), "static", "templates"), ) INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: 'django.contrib.admin', # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'south', 'join', ) 

Answer 1

The error message states that you installed south on Python 2.4.

You must install south on python 2.7.