Need help with old django: ImportError: No module named app
 

I'm taking yet another course at Skillshare. Skillshare seems to be a place to dump your programming courses. I doubt the teacher is actually available, otherwise I'd ask her.

My current issue (I suspect) is because I am using old Python (2.7.17) with an old Django (1.11.13) (version provided by the teacher in a download form) I have done what I'm trying to do in this course with other newer versions of Django (Django 2.x) But I'm having enormous difficulty finding any infomation on my particular error. When I took programming in college, it wasn't this hard. Nothing was. But then I didn't use it everyday for ten years. Then for ten years after that I didn't use it at all. It's rather ironic. I'm thinking of redoing my old COBOL final project in python. That is, in Python 3. But that's neither here nor there.

My issue is this:
One of my many Python teachers said that to be taken seriously as a programmer, I need to learn to look up the answers on StackOverflow and other such sites. I looked up this problem on StackOverflow and someone there was having a problem that seemed similar to mine said that I should create a file named app.py in the same directory that __init__.py is in, so I did. It didn't help. There IS no __init__.py. There's __init__pyc and __init__pyo, both of them binary files. With my app.py file, which I made with touch:
Any help with resolving this issue will be appreciated. Thank you in advance for any advice you can offer.

Could it be a typo somewhere in the script? Like app instead of apps? You probably have something like

"Doubt"? You mean you can't be bothered to try.


Python cannot find the "app" module. There are a number of potential reasons for this error.

The course teacher will know whether that module should exist (and where it should be), whether it should have been created earlier, etc - and thus can tell you very quickly whether it's a typo, path issue, or something else.

Without even a reference to the course, all anybody here can do is make guesses.



Being able to search effectively is vital, but programmers who only look up answers on Stack Overflow are ones that aren't taken seriously.

Good programmers understand what errors are saying and will look for explanations not answers - those can come from many websites.

Generally the Stack Overflow responses worth considering are the ones that explain why the error is occurring and link to relevant documentation - i.e. those that assist with understanding - but a large number of them are written by mediocre programmers with a limited grasp on what they're responding to.


If you don't understand what __init__.py is and which directories it exists in, you should read the Python documentation on modules.

Once you have read that, you may understand why creating app.py in one of Python's system directories was never going to solve your problem (and is a misunderstanding of whatever the issue on StackOverflow was).

Carefully read the Django documentation on modules. Yes, it might be a tpyo!

You were right. In my <root>/settings.py it said to import jobs.app.JobListing. I changed it from app to apps and it started up. Thank you for your help!