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I’ve been having problems with the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE variable. For instance, I was following the tutorial in the Django Book and stumbled across the following error:

ImportError: Could not import settings ‘mysite.settings’ (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named mysite.settings

The trick is not simply

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings

but also to create a .pth file within the /site-packages/ folder in the python installation that contains a path to your project directory. That should do the trick.