[FIXED] After Mac OS update Pycharm django python console doesn't have right environmental variable but the "run server" works fine

Issue

I am using pycharm as editor of my django app. Everything was working fine until I updated my mac os. After that a lot of settings got messed up for the python interpreter.

I managed to fix most of the issue and now I can "run the server" correctly. However, I still can't get the python console to run properly.

When I open the console and I try to import a model, I get the following error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.

The thing that kills me is that I have the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set in my django server environmental variables so it's if the python console was not picking that up.

Solution

Found a solution. I added export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mywebsite.settings to my system env variable and it worked. It's a work around I know, but at least.

Answered By - giaggi