Error: ImportError: cannot import name readers

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 101, in get_response
    request.path_info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 298, in resolve
    for pattern in self.url_patterns:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 328, in url_patterns
    patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.3-py2.7.egg/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 323, in urlconf_module
    self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.3-py2.7.egg/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/opt/cgmoverflow/urls.py", line 22, in <module>
    (r'%s' % settings.ASKBOT_URL, include('askbot.urls'))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.3-py2.7.egg/django/conf/urls/__init__.py", line 24, in include
    urlconf_module = import_module(urlconf_module)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.3-py2.7.egg/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/askbot/urls.py", line 10, in <module>
    from askbot import views
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/askbot/views/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from askbot.views import readers
ImportError: cannot import name readers

Michał Wasilewski

asked 12 years ago

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Evgeny

updated 12 years ago

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this is a strange error it has occured to me too.

suhail (11 years ago)

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You can track this down by adding from askbot.views import readers to your django.wsgi and running it interactively (I tested it with django.fcgi, though).

In my case the problem was that I had set TIME_ZONE = None as the django documentation suggests. However, that does not seem to be supported by all parts of the askbot stack:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./django.fcgi", line 14, in <module>
    from askbot.views import readers
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/askbot/views/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>  
    from askbot.views import writers
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/askbot/views/writers.py", line 46, in <module>
    from askbot.templatetags import extra_filters_jinja as template_filters
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/askbot/templatetags/extra_filters_jinja.py", line 35, in <module>
    django_settings.TIME_ZONE
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 162, in timezone
    if zone.upper() == 'UTC':