No name 'path' in module 'django.urls'

Question

I'm trying to set up a Django project using AWS Cloud9 - this is the first time I have used Cloud9 since it moved to AWS, although I had used it for projects previously. I thought I had created the project with no problems, but I am getting a error in urls.py relating to the import of 'path' from django.urls. A warning on the page says:

No name 'path' in module 'django.urls'

I am using a virtual environment with Python 3.6.8 and Django 2.2.4, but currently I cannot run the project because of this error. On a previous Cloud9 based project, I was using Django 2.1 with Python 3.6 and had no errors with this code.

This is all that is currently in urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

Trying to run the project, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ec2-user/environment/project/urls.py", line 17, in <module>
    from django.urls import path
ImportError: cannot import name path

@WillemVanOnsem That was my first thought, but when I try `python -m django --version` it returns 2.2.4. — Andrew Stead, Aug 09 '19 at 15:37

Ramy M. Mousa · Answer 1 · 2019-08-09T15:46:50.690

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It looks like AWS is running django 1.11 or older. path was introduced starting django 2.0. check urls for version 2.0

To check for version run this:

python -m django --version

edited Aug 09 '19 at 15:46

answered Aug 09 '19 at 15:40

Ramy M. Mousa

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As I say, I am using a virtual environment - I installed the latest version of Django in that, and have checked it since and it is definitely saying that I am running 2.2.4. – Andrew Stead Aug 09 '19 at 15:42
did you configure your webserver to use your python version where you installed your packages? – Ramy M. Mousa Aug 09 '19 at 15:46
I set the AWS environment to run Python 3.6.8. – Andrew Stead Aug 09 '19 at 15:49
Try upgrading to python 3.7 – Ramy M. Mousa Aug 09 '19 at 15:58
I have not been able to do that thus far - I tried `sudo yum -y install python37` and got `No package python37 available. Error: Nothing to do`. – Andrew Stead Aug 09 '19 at 17:11

No name 'path' in module 'django.urls'

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