ImportError: No module named 'social_django'

Question

Every time I am running the application from the Github Repository, I am getting the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/lenovo-pc/Desktop/Django-Social-Authentication-master/socialauth/manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 364, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 338, in execute
    django.setup()
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\django\__init__.py", line 27, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py", line 85, in populate
    app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\django\apps\config.py", line 94, in create
    module = import_module(entry)
  File "C:\Python35\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 956, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'social_django'

I want to know what is social_django all about? I have installed many libraries, but non of then have satisfied this error:

python-social-auth[django]
social-auth-app-django

But nothing happens. Please let me know what I should do.

have you installed this `pip install python-social-auth[django]` — Roshan Bagdiya, Oct 07 '17 at 09:02
Update your INSTALLED_APPS to include social_django @jaffer Reference:[here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41635052/python-social-auth-with-django-importerror-no-module-named-social-django) — Roshan Bagdiya, Oct 07 '17 at 09:08
This is kinda late by I faced the same problem and solved it by adding the Pipfile and Pipfil.lock manually before committing to Heroku. — Theodore, Jun 17 '20 at 13:00

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '17 at 08:58

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The Python executable you use to run the application doesn't have social_django installed. You can verify this by running these commands:

python manage.py shell
import social_django

This will give you an error, for the same reason.

You can install it with:

pip install social-auth-app-django

answered Oct 07 '17 at 08:58

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My reply is kinda late but I am facing this same issue, i tried the import and it worked fine without any errors but i still get module not found error – malik727 Feb 11 '20 at 17:18

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '17 at 09:07

The github project you are referring to, has dependency on package 'social_django'. You can check it here.

So you would need to install 'social_django' that can be installed by

pip install social-auth-app-django

I know, you have mentioned this in the question itself but I am pretty sure that the package is not installed.

ImportError: No module named 'social_django'

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