python-getting-started/app.json contains unbalanced parenthesis

We config DATABASES from line 59 as

# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}

and there is a duplicate config start from line 89

# Parse database configuration from $DATABASE_URL
DATABASES['default'] =  dj_database_url.config()

So when we follow the guide to running locally, the syncdb command will suck and get error output end with

$ python manage.py syncdb
...
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: settings.DATABASES is improperly configured. Please supply the ENGINE value. Check settings documentation for more details.

that because of the DATABASES is set as dummy

$ python manage.py diffsettings
...
DATABASES = {'default': {'AUTOCOMMIT': True, 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.dummy', 'ATOMIC_REQUESTS': False, 'NAME': '', 'TEST_MIRROR': None, 'CONN_MAX_AGE': 0, 'TEST_NAME': None, 'TIME_ZONE': 'UTC', 'TEST_COLLATION': None, 'PORT': '', 'HOST': '', 'USER': '', 'TEST_CHARSET': None, 'PASSWORD': '', 'OPTIONS': {}}}
...

maybe the README should tell newbies to setup their postgres and export DATABASE_URL first, or use sqlite only when running locally

aaronmiller$ pip list
Package Version

dj-database-url 0.5.0
Django 1.11.17
django-heroku 0.3.1
gunicorn 19.9.0
pip 18.1
psycopg2 2.7.6.1
pytz 2018.7
setuptools 39.2.0
wheel 0.31.1
whitenoise 4.1.2

Python 2.7.15 and 3.7.2

ANYWAYS. When I do:

python manage.py migrate

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 364, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 308, in execute
settings.INSTALLED_APPS
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 56, in getattr
self._setup(name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 41, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 110, in init
mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py", line 37, in import_module
import(name)
File "/Users/aaronmiller/Development/python-getting-started/gettingstarted/settings.py", line 14, in
import django_heroku
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_heroku/init.py", line 1, in
from .core import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_heroku/core.py", line 45
def settings(config, *, db_colors=False, databases=True, test_runner=True, staticfiles=True, allowed_hosts=True, logging=True, secret_key=True):
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I would really like any ideas. I am new to python and am trying to warm up to it by doing this.

Currently running Django migrations is a manual step in the tutorial.

Instead, Release Phase should be used to run this:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/release-phase

I have had this issue everytime i tried to install packages from requirements.txt. It turns out the package django-heroku is not used anymore, it changed to django-on-heroku. The tutorial on how to create a python app should change this.

Hello i followed all the instructions here in README.md and when i tried to do a migrate i got the error:

File "/app/DjangoSite/urls.py", line 18, in
from . import views
File "/app/DjangoSite/views.py", line 2, in
import pyrebase
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyrebase'

How can i solve this two errors?
By the way, i'm not using any sql database like postgreSQL and when i opened my app i got application error.

Same issue as heroku/heroku-django-template#26

I get the following warning with the template.
WARNINGS:
?: (1_8.W001) The standalone TEMPLATE_* settings were deprecated in Django 1.8 and the TEMPLATES dictionary takes precedence. You must put the values of the following settings into your default TEMPLATES dict: TEMPLATE_DEBUG.
It's nothing serious, and can be easily solved with this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32445953/django-app-works-fine-but-getting-a-template-warning-message

In the db.html template in the hello app section {% load staticfiles %} is not working ,correct tag is
{% load static %}, after this correction working well.

{% load staticfiles %} needs to be replaced with {% load static %} in \hello\templates\db.html to work in Django 3.0

It throws an error otherwise when accessing https://appname.herokuapp.com/db/

Tutorial: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python#provision-a-database

At Declare app dependencies guide step, I was faiced to install problem:

    Collecting psycopg2==2.6 (from -r requirements.txt (line 5))
      Using cached psycopg2-2.6.tar.gz
        Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
        running egg_info
        creating pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info
        writing pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\PKG-INFO
        writing top-level names to pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\top_level.txt
        writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\dependency_links.txt
        writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info\psycopg2.egg-info\SOURCES.txt'
        warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found

        Error: pg_config executable not found.

        Please add the directory containing pg_config to the PATH
        or specify the full executable path with the option:

            python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...

        or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.

        ----------------------------------------
    Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\msimkin\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-hb6cgn\psycopg2

My local system:
OS: Win 8.1Pro
Hardware: DELL Latitude E7250

In the repo the default database engine is set to Sqlite3, while the tutorial uses Postgres:
https://github.com/heroku/python-getting-started/blob/master/gettingstarted/settings.py#L80
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python#provision-a-database

It would be helpful if the repo showed how to work with DATABASE_URL variable instead of hardcoding the database credentials from the app datastore credentials, which also requires looking up an example - we used https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-postgresql-with-your-django-application-on-ubuntu-14-04

That would be very helpful for beginners. Thanks!

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26315455/in-heroku-python-tutorial-virtualenv-issues-installing-wsgiref-ez-setup-syntax for an example of the error.

curl -n -X POST https://api.heroku.com/app-setups \
-H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-H "Accept:application/vnd.heroku+json; version=3" \
-d '{"source_blob": { "url":"https://github.com/heroku/python-getting-started/tarball/master/"} }'

Please checkout PR #7 for reference.

same issue on PHP which was solve by same solution heroku/php-getting-started#8

at=error code=H10 desc="App crashed" method=GET path="/" host

i have installed the package but still it shows not found package python

https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/692

FYI: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/release-phase

Running heroku run python manage.py migrate on a new app created from this project gives the following warning:

System check identified some issues:

WARNINGS:
hello.Greeting: (models.W042) Auto-created primary key used when not defining a primary key type, by default 'django.db.models.AutoField'.
	HINT: Configure the DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD setting or the AppConfig.default_auto_field attribute to point to a subclass of AutoField, e.g. 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'.

We should tweak the settings/migrations to suppress this on Django 3.2+.

In your readme, you are creating but not activating the env -> source getting-started/bin/activate

It does not seem .env file to be used in this project. Maybe a reference to python-dotenv is missing with loading instructions at top of settings.py ?

Hi, I had issues cloning the file when using the syntax provided. I used git clone https://github.com/heroku/python-getting-started.git to download the repo

Whenever I follow the Heroku get started instructions for Python I end up making an app that ultimately results in a page with "Application Error". Through researching the logs I have 3 instances of this error at=error code=H10 desc="App crashed" method=GET path="/robots.txt" host=desolate-eyrie-96916.herokuapp.com. After trying this heroku run python manage.py migrate command I get this error django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not find the GDAL library (tried "gdal", "GDAL", "gdal2.2.0", "gdal2.1.0", "gdal2.0.0", "gdal1.11.0", "gdal1.10.0", "gdal1.9.0"). Is GDAL installed? If it is, try setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.. I even had my colleague try on his computer and he was receiving the same errors.

When deploying this app, the buildpack shows the message:

remote: -----> Python app detected
remote:  !     Python has released a security update! Please consider upgrading to python-3.7.6
remote:        Learn More: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-runtimes

Project, once deployed, is still in debug mode (django debug) which does not fit to django deployed application guideline (DEBUG=False).

Maybe some settings.py adaptation is needed to load this DEBUG value from os.environ ?