Psycopg missing module in Django

Question

I have pip installed psycopg2, but when I try to runserver or syncdb in my Django project, it raises an error saying there is "no module named _psycopg".

EDIT: the "syncdb" command now raises: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: ImportError django.contrib.admin: No module named _psycopg

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

This was solved by performing a clean reinstall of django. There was apparently some dependecies missing that the recursive pip install did not seem to be able to solve.

Answer 2

Make sure that you've enabled psycopg2 and not psycopg in the settings.py file:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',

And not:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg',