Widget tweaks error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'widget_tweaks' with Django forms

Question

I am trying to customize my Django forms using widget tweaks for an app I'm building with a group and I keep getting an error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'widget_tweaks'

I don't understand why.

I installed the module on my mac with $ pip install django-widget-tweaks and placed 'widget_tweaks' in the INSTALLED_APPS = [...] part of my app's settings.py file. Those were the only 2 things I saw that I needed to do after reading the documentation for how to use widget tweaks.

settings.py file snippet:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'PupsToPet.apps.PupstopetConfig',
    'widget_tweaks',
   #'django.contrib.easy_maps',
]

Did you add this tag at top of your template {% load widget_tweaks %} — Balaraju M, Dec 04 '17 at 04:00

score 27 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 15 '18 at 01:37

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Try to install with pip3:

pip3 install django-widget-tweaks

edited Jan 15 '18 at 01:37

Stephen Rauch

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answered Jan 15 '18 at 01:19

nevermore

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '18 at 11:30

I had this same problem and it was killing me!

(for me) The problem was that I was working in an virtural env in PyCharm) but I have a global python as well. From my command line I was running manage.py runserver, the problem being that my global python doesn't have the widget-tweaks library installed. ( I didn't realize I wasn't running from the venv)

If you're like me the solution is make sure you're in the right environment,

from PyCharm I did tools -> run manage.py task -> runserver

and it worked...

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 19 '20 at 18:00

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Ahh this is working for me look when write python -m pip install Pillow this problem solved for me

answered May 19 '20 at 18:00

rovsen762

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 01 '21 at 10:52

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My problem was resolved after upgrading my pip version from 21.0.1 to 21.1.1 using pip install --upgrade pip

answered May 01 '21 at 10:52

Yeboah

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 25 '22 at 04:43

I got this since I added 'widget_tweaks', above the started apps. You need to add it under the started apps, you can add pip installed like this INSTALLED_APPS += [ 'widget_tweaks', ] under INSTALLED_APPS. Only add pip installed apps in INSTALLED_APPS += [] and started apps in INSTALLED_APPS = [].

Or you can just add the pip installed apps bellow the started apps. Like this:

Settings.py only showing INSTALLED_APPS

...
INSTALLED_APPS = [ 
    
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'PupsToPet.apps.PupstopetConfig',
    ...
     
    # Started apps first
    'app1',
    'app2',
    ...

    # pip installed at the bottom
    'widget_tweaks',
    ...
    
]
...

Widget tweaks error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'widget_tweaks' with Django forms

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