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After solve an error trying to migrate, now I'm facing another issue with the south package.

Running manage.py syncdb or manage.py schemamigration MyApp --initial I get this:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__'

This post mentions that the issue is solved with the new version (0.8.4) but not for me 'cause I have the latest one.

I'm running over a virtual enviroment with python3.3 - Any clue?

If you didn't see the link or don't want to open it, here is the full stacktrace in plain text:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 285, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/management/commands/schemamigration.py", line 87, in handle
    migrations = Migrations(app, force_creation=True, verbose_creation=int(verbosity) > 0)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 64, in __call__
    self.instances[app_label] = super(MigrationsMetaclass, self).__call__(app_label_to_app_module(app_label), **kwds)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.set_application(application, force_creation, verbose_creation)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 163, in set_application
    self._load_migrations_module(application.migrations)
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 170, in _load_migrations_module
    dirname = self.migrations_dir()
  File "/home/hogar/Development/python/django/enviroments/share_this/lib/python3.3/site-packages/south/migration/base.py", line 132, in migrations_dir
    return os.path.dirname(module.__file__)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__'
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  • I would like to see the solution to this problem because I'm having this also... – Radolino Mar 27 '14 at 14:31
  • @RobDel I found the solution. See the answer below. – Lucio Mar 27 '14 at 19:06
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    @RobDel In my case the problem was that the `migrations` directory was present when I issued the command `./manage.py schemamigration app --initial`. After deleting it, everything worked fine. – raratiru Mar 29 '14 at 21:06
  • I also deleted the database migration entries and it worked. thanks ! – Radolino Mar 29 '14 at 21:26

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Just for completeness I'm highlighting @rara_tiru 's answer from the comments as an answer as it was also my issue: I also had a migrations folder in my app, when the migrations folder was removed, it worked. Using Python 3.3 / South 1.0 / Django 1.6.5.

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The issue was that I was using python3.3 for the whole project but the initial python manage.py syncdb command was entered using pyhon2.7, which will give me several issues later.

I noticed this after generate the project from the scratch and look an error in the output of manage.py syncdb.

Then I deleted all the info from postgre-sql and, after source bin/activate, run python3 manage.py syncdb.

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At least in Django 1.5 if you have empty "migrations" directories the AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__file__' error will also happen.

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