I'm using whitenoise to deploy static files in prod, so according to whitenoise's docs, it's recommended to use it in development too.
So I followed the documentation and added the following to my settings.py file:
INSTALLED_APPS = ['whitenoise.runserver_nostatic','django.contrib.admin', ...other]MIDDLEWARE = ['django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware','whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware', ...other]But when I run the server using python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000, I get the error
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'whitenoise'
Full stack trace:
Exception in thread django-main-thread:Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 926, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 870, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 53, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 109, in inner_run autoreload.raise_last_exception() File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 76, in raise_last_exception raise _exception[1] File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 357, in execute autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)() File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 53, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 24, in setup apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS) File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 91, in populate app_config = AppConfig.create(entry) File "/path/to/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 116, in create mod = import_module(mod_path) File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 965, in _find_and_load_unlockedModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'whitenoise'I checked using pip freeze and the module IS installed (v5.0.1) along with django 3.0.4. So why am I getting that error?