Horst & Malcolm Thank you for your suggestions, they helped me determine that the problem is machine specific.
On Nov 27, 3:03 am, "Horst Gutmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure, that your django installation is complete? Esp.: Do you > have a db/backends/dummy/base.py and a db/backends/dummy/__init__.py > in > /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/s > ite-packages/django/ Yes, these files are in these locations and are not damaged as far as I can tell. On Nov 27, 8:11 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, if you're just starting out with Django, why are you setting > DATABASE_ENGINE='dummy'? It's not one of the database backends that we > document or suggest for use. Mostly there for historical reasons. I didn't set anything for the DATABASE_ENGINE, it was empty. I was going thru the tutorial and made it to the section called "The development server". At that point I had not touched the settings.py. After your message above I opened the settings.py and made sqlite3 the DATABASE_ENGINE. I tested and got essentially the same error initially reported except the last line said something about no module named _sqlite3. On the computer with the problems noted above I had installed django using Macports (I installed Macports specifically for this django install) I uninstalled Macports and removed all the django files I could find, then ran setup.py install "manually" but no luck. I went to another computer with just the default mac os x 10.5.5 installed and was able to install a fully functional version of django in about 10 minutes (manually, instead of using Macports).So, for my purposes, I consider this problem solved. (although if anyone has any ideas that will save me from doing a clean system install on my primary computer just to get django running on it, I'm open to suggestions) thank you for your help james --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---