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I keep getting an import error on environ in my settings.py file, I have it installed via poetry in my .venv file as well. Could this be an error outside the settings file possibly?

`
import environ

env = environ.Env(
    DEBUG=(bool, False),
    ENVIORNMENT=(str, 'PRODUCTION'),
)

environ.Env.read_env()

ENVIRONMENT= env.str('ENVIRONMENT')


SECRET_KEY = env.str('SECRET_KEY')

DEBUG = env.bool('DEBUG')

ALLOWED_HOSTS = tuple(env.list('ALLOWED_HOSTS'))

`
Corey Marchand
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    if you have a virtual environment you're working with, make sure when you run your script it is run in that environment – M Z Aug 20 '20 at 19:27

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Make sure that you are using the desired python interpreter, that your virtualenv is setup correctly, and that the desired django-environ is installed within that virtualenv via

(inside venv) pip install django-environ
joe.dinius
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The problem could occur due to the following reasons:

  1. You are using. Virtual environment, but you installed module outside the virtual environment.
  2. You haven't added 'environ', in your your settings.py file in INSTALLED_APPS.(based on its reference exceptionally not required for this package!)
muel
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Prabhjot Singh
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  • I'm having the same issue. I installed everything inside of my virtual environment and am attempting to run $ python manage.py runserver with my virtual environment open and I'm getting "raise ImproperlyConfigured(error_msg) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Set the SECRET_KEY environment variable" – Jake Mulhern Jan 27 '21 at 04:47
  • Sorry for the late response. The issue seems like in your settings file, for secret_key value, you are getting value from environment variable. but environment variable is not set. SOLUTION : 1. either set up secret key variable value in environment variable on your computer. 2. set up variable value in setting.py file ...like secret_key = "any-random-text" – Prabhjot Singh Apr 20 '21 at 05:54
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    You don't have to add `django-environ` to `INSTALLED_APPS` for it to work: https://django-environ.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html#installation – Dan Swain Nov 01 '21 at 18:23
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Make sure you have done the following three actions:

  1. Install the package through this command:

    (inside venv) pip install django-environ

  2. Select the right python interpreter(the environment in which you have installed the package)

  3. Create an ".env" file in project root directory. And based on its reference doc here, it should be consisting of something like below:

DEBUG=on
SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key
DATABASE_URL=psql://user:un-githubbedpassword@127.0.0.1:8458/database
SQLITE_URL=sqlite:///my-local-sqlite.db
CACHE_URL=memcache://127.0.0.1:11211,127.0.0.1:11212,127.0.0.1:11213
REDIS_URL=rediscache://127.0.0.1:6379/1?client_class=django_redis.client.DefaultClient&password=ungithubbed-secret
muel
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In my case, I had one environ.py file that was clashing with the library import, changing the file name fixed the issue.

For Django there is another option that I use,

from os import getenv
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

create a .env file along with settings.py then you have to load those variables. For example :

CONFIGURATION = getenv("CONFIGURATION")

Install the module using

pip install python-dotenv
Rupak Biwas
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