Django-Tinymce Import Error

Question

I am trying to follow this tutorial on getting tinymce working with django and zinnia. It's not working, so I am attempting to do "Testing" but get this error when I run django-admin.py syncdb. How do I fix this?

$django-admin.py syncdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/django-admin.py", line 5, in <module>
    pkg_resources.run_script('Django==1.5.1', 'django-admin.py')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 505, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1245, in run_script
    execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/django-admin.py", line 5, in <module>
    management.execute_from_command_line()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 453, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 263, in fetch_command
    app_name = get_commands()[subcommand]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 109, in get_commands
    apps = settings.INSTALLED_APPS
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 53, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 48, in _setup
    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Django-1.5.1-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 134, in __init__
    raise ImportError("Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on sys.path?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e))
ImportError: Could not import settings 'testtinymce.staticfiles_settings' (Is it on sys.path?): No module named staticfiles_settings

Thank you.

did you run this before syncdb ? `export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='testtinymce.staticfiles_settings'` ? — karthikr, Jun 14 '13 at 16:33
I did. I've tried it in a virtual env and on the system and I'm getting the same errors. — mh00h, Jun 14 '13 at 17:30
Alternatively you can also put this ina settings file and try — karthikr, Jun 14 '13 at 17:41
Thank you. I tried your suggestion, but it did not fix the problem. — mh00h, Jun 14 '13 at 18:23
Seems to have started working. Future readers might try a restart to see if this fixes your problem. — mh00h, Jun 21 '13 at 07:17

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '14 at 20:56

I found out the django-tinymce documentation is outdated, i.e. partially wrong.

What I discovered is that different versions of tinymce and django-tinymce packages are not compatible.

I solved it adding some variables to my project/settings.py and altering the tinymce directory and file names.

django-tinymce urls.py had some hardcoded paths in it which assumed the directories were named "tiny_mce" when in reality they were named "tinymce", hence I had to rename them, or alternatively you can change the hardcoded paths in django-tinymce's urls.py.

# project setting.py
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
STATIC_JS_DIR = os.path.join(STATIC_DIR, "js")
TINYMCE_JS_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_JS_DIR, "tiny_mce")
TINYMCE_JS_URL = os.path.join(TINYMCE_JS_ROOT, "tiny_mce.js")
#TINYMCE_JS_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_JS_DIR, "tiny_mce")
#TINYMCE_JS_URL = os.path.join(TINYMCE_JS_ROOT, "tiny_mce.js")

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '14 at 19:05

A simple shutdown of the terminal, then restarting the app again fixed it for me (without needing to configure anything extra). I followed the instructions here:

pip install django-tinymce
Add tinymce to the INSTALLED_APPS of 'settings.py'
Add (r'^tinymce/', include('tinymce.urls')), to the urlpatterns in urls.py
Do a python manage.py syncdb (not sure if this is needed)
In terminal: $ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='testtinymce.staticfiles_settings'
Do another python manage.py syncdb just in case and then a python manage.py runserver
I then received the error when I tried to open up the browser to: http://localhost:8000/admin/myapphere
I restarted the terminal, did a 'collect static' just in case, then did python manage.py runserver and it worked (I was able to see the new fields)

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 29 '20 at 12:03

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The latest version of tinymce has a different configuration. instead of Importing HTMLField like from tinymce import HTMLField but rather from tinymce.models import HTMLField

answered May 29 '20 at 12:03

Donmzee

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