ImportError: cannot import name signals
Question: I'm using Django 1.3.0 with Python 2.7.1. In every test I write the following
imports I get the importError above:

    
    
    from django.utils import unittest
    from django.test.client import Client
    

The full stack trace:

    
    
      File "C:\Program Files (x86)\j2ee\plugins\org.python.pydev.debug_1.6.3.2010100513\pysrc\runfiles.py", line 342, in __get_module_from_str
        mod = __import__(modname)
      File "C:/Users/benjamin/workspace/BookIt/src/BookIt/tests\basic_flow.py", line 11, in 
        from django.test.client import Client
      File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\test\__init__.py", line 5, in 
        from django.test.client import Client, RequestFactory
      File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\test\client.py", line 21, in 
        from django.test import signals
    ImportError: cannot import name signals
    ERROR: Module: basic_flow could not be imported.
    

Any ideas why this happening ?


Answer: @Hugo was right in that it was a settings.py problem. But I didn't had that
problem when running through the Django environment. But when I wanted to run
unit tests one by one (By using Pydev's run as unittest) it failed to run.
What I needed to do was to add the Django settings module information, so for
now what I'm doing is adding the following lines to my unit tests:

    
    
    from django.core import management;
    import BookIt.settings as settings;
    management.setup_environ(settings)
    

This loads my Django project settings and allow me to run as regular unittest.
If anyone has better suggestion on how to configure this more cleanly in Pydev
please let me know.

