I set up the virtual environment variable for Django 1.8 as per the instructions in the Django tutorial (1.8) and the (almost) matching 1.7 tutorial on PythonAnywhere. When I go into Bash and follow the instructions to check the Django version it confirms that I have version 1.8. installed.
I am up to part 3 in the Django tutorial at this URL:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/intro/tutorial03/
In mysite/urls.py the tutorial tells me to write this:
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]
However, when I actually opened the file I was presented with this:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'mysite.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
The tutorial then has this to say:
Doesn’t match what you see? If you’re seeing admin.autodiscover() before the definition of urlpatterns, you’re probably using a version of Django that doesn’t match this tutorial version. You’ll want to either switch to the older tutorial or the newer Django version.
As I said though, Bash confirms that I Do have Django 1.8 installed. What am I missing here? Why do I not have the correct files for Django 1.8 even though that's what I supposedly installed?
I tried to make the files match the tutorial files, but it only resulted in an error appearing on my public site.
The most likely cause is that you didn't activate the virtualenv when you ran startproject, so you got the default Django from PythonAnywhere instead of the one that you installed.