syncing sqlite3 for Django tutorial

Question

I'm starting the Django tutorials and have virtual environments and django installed. I'm working on a Mac 10.6.8, which has sqlite3 already installed.

I'm working inside a virtual environment. I changed the settings.py file to:

ENGINE -- 'django.db.backends.sqlite3'

I left the NAME -- in the settings.py file blank (i.e. '') because the tutorial said

"If the file doesn't exist, it will automatically be created when you synchronize the database for the first time."

But when I run python manage.py syncdb, I get the following error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Please fill out the database NAME in the settings module before using the database.

Why isn't my file automatically created? Or what do I need to do to solve this problem?

Thank you!

Answer 1

It will be created for you, but you have to specify what name to call it so just set NAME to sqlite.db or something similar. You can also specify a path so that it doesn't clog up your project directory. I usually save the dev database outside of my project.