ImportError: Could not import settings - No module named settings
Question: i have what seems to be a basic path problem, but i can't figure this out for
the life of me.

I have the following directory structure:

    
    
        └── rockitt
            ├── activities
            │   ├── migrations
            │   ├── templates
            │   │   └── activities
            │   └── templatetags
            ├── blog
            │   ├── settings
    

within `blog/settings` I have: `base.py dev.py __init.py__`

`__init.py__` within the directory above contains: `from .dev import *`

When running things like manage.py i receive the following error:

`ImportError: Could not import settings 'blog.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Is
there an import error in the settings file?): No module named settings `

**What I have tried so far:**

  1. I've checked what paths are present when manage.py is running and the following path is at the top of the list: ` rockitt lib/python2.7/Django-1.7.7-py2.7.egg lib/python2.7 [other dirs...] ENV/lib/python27.zip ENV/lib/python2.7 ENV/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2 ENV/lib/python2.7/lib-tk ENV/lib/python2.7/lib-old ENV/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload /usr/local/lib/python2.7 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-tk ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages `

  2. I've tried to manually load the settings file with no luck: from the blog/settings directory i have tried (I'm not sure if this is the right way to test this however based on reading [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11536764/attempted-relative-import-in-non-package-even-with-init-py):
    
        >>> import dev
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "dev.py", line 1, in <module>
        from .base import *
    ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package
    

I'm kinda stuck on this. I -=think=- it might be also related to my wsgi.py
file (below).

**Further info:**

  1. wsgi.py:
    
        import os, sys, site
    site.addsitedir('/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "blog.settings.dev")
    activate_this =     os.path.expanduser("/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/ENV/bin/activate_this.py")
    execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
    
    #calculate the path based on the location of the WSGI script
    project = '/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/rockitt'
    workspace = os.path.dirname(project)
    sys.path.append(workspace)
    sys.path = ['/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/rockitt/blog', '/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/rockitt'$
    
    from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
    application = get_wsgi_application()
    

  2. Stacktrace:
    
        Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
      File "/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/lib/python2.7/Django-1.7.7-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 385, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
      File "/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/lib/python2.7/Django-1.7.7-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute
    settings.INSTALLED_APPS
      File "/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/lib/python2.7/Django-1.7.7-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 46, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
      File "/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/lib/python2.7/Django-1.7.7-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 42, in _setup
    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
      File "/home/thisUserName/webapps/dev_django_rockitt/lib/python2.7/Django-1.7.7-py2.7.egg/django/conf/__init__.py", line 98, in __init__
    % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e)
    ImportError: Could not import settings 'blog.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Is there an import error in the settings file?): No module named settings
    


Answer: it's almost tempting to remove this question due to my own stupidity, however
i think the answer might help someone else who is coding and lacks sleep.

it's quite simple really - **it was a typo within the`blog/settings`
directory**.

**I had typed`__init.py__`, but obviously it should have been `__init__.py`**

Once this was rectified the error disappeared.

I hope this helps someone in the future. Facepalm moment.

