I had a similar problem yesterday (I'm also new), and again, it was because of capitalization. For some reason my settings.py file got renamed to SETTINGS.py. Don't know how that happened, but when I reset the filename to all lower case, things worked.
Hope this helps, Michael On Nov 30, 10:21 am, Baba Samu <samuelbarcel...@gmail.com> wrote: > first of all thank very much. > > the problem was i named the folder 'POLLS', in stead of 'polls' it > seems to be case sensitive.... > > anyway, i changed it and now i get > > Error: Django doesn't know which syntax to use for your SQL > statements, > because you haven't specified the DATABASE_ENGINE setting. > Edit your settings file and change DATABASE_ENGINE to something like > 'postgresql > ' or 'mysql'. > > but when i enter settings.py to edit it i see it.... > > another issue i have is, copy/pasting from or into .py files from the > console doesnt work.... > > sorry im new :_( > > thanks > samu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
