No module named importlib

[chrisspen]

When I went to initialize the sqlite database for the chat example with:

./manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

I received the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./manage.py", line 15, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 353, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 348, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 398, in execute
    self.check()
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 426, in check
    include_deployment_checks=include_deployment_checks,
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/registry.py", line 75, in run_checks
    new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 10, in check_url_config
    return check_resolver(resolver)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/urls.py", line 19, in check_resolver
    for pattern in resolver.url_patterns:
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 33, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 417, in url_patterns
    patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 33, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 410, in urlconf_module
    return import_module(self.urlconf_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/src/ros/ros_homebot_telepresence/src/urls.py", line 12, in <module>
    url("", include("django_socketio.urls")),
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/urls/__init__.py", line 52, in include
    urlconf_module = import_module(urlconf_module)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/usr/local/myproject/.env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_socketio/urls.py", line 4, in <module>
    from django.utils.importlib import import_module
ImportError: No module named importlib

Is this a bug or did I misconfigure something?

The pip installation defaulted to Django 1.9. Does Django-socketio support this version?

[chrisspen]

Actually, it looks like this question was answered here and it seems Django 1.9 is not supported.

This answer shows how to fix this error in your code.

[stephenmcd]

Duplicate of #79

[MikeSoft]

@chrisspen I couldn't fix the issue, i would be grateful if you explain how you did it =)

[chrisspen]

@MikeSoft, What do you mean? All I did was copy and paste the snippet from that SO answer to fix the import. Django 1.9 removed backwards compatibility for some deprecated imports.

[MikeSoft]

@chrisspen i tried use the import fix, but It doesn't work to use this library =(

[chrisspen]

It's working for me. I merged a bunch of fixes in my own fork, which is currently in a pull request, but will likely not be merged for some time. Try that.

https://github.com/chrisspen/django-socketio