title: Could not import Django settings into Google App Engine
body: <p>Hello all you Google App Engine experts, </p>
  
  <p>I have used Django a little before but am new to Google App Engine and 
  am trying to use it's development web server with Django for the first time. </p>
  
  <p>I don't know if this is relevent but I previously had Django 1.1 and 
  Python 2.6 on my Windows XP and even though I have uninstalled Python 
  2.6 there is still a folder and entries in the registry.</p>
  
  <p>I have followed the instructions from Google but when I browse to the GAE developemnt web server it cannot find my settings 
  (details below). </p>
  
  <p>Any hints gratefully received.</p>
  
  <p>Regards</p>
  
  <p>Geoff </p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Documents and Settings\GeoffK\My Documents\ing\ingsite&gt;echo %PATH% 
  C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS 
  \system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;;C:\Python25;C:\Python25\Lib\site- 
  packages\django\bin;C:\Documents and Settings\GeoffK\My Documents\ing 
  \ingsite;C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\ 
  C:\Documents and Settings\GeoffK\My Documents\ing\ingsite&gt;echo 
  %PYTHONPATH% 
  C:\Documents and Settings\GeoffK\My Documents\ing\ingsite 
  C:\Documents and Settings\GeoffK\My Documents\ing\ingsite&gt;C:\Documents 
  and Settings\GeoffK\My Documents\ing\ingsite&gt;dev_appserver.py -- 
  debug_imports ingiliz\ 
  INFO     2009-08-04 07:29:45,328 appengine_rpc.py:157] Server: 
  appengine.google. 
  com 
  INFO     2009-08-04 07:29:45,358 appcfg.py:322] Checking for updates 
  to the SDK. 
  INFO     2009-08-04 07:29:45,578 appcfg.py:336] The SDK is up to date. 
  WARNING  2009-08-04 07:29:45,578 datastore_file_stub.py:404] Could not 
  read data 
  store data from c:\docume~1\geoffk\locals~1\temp 
  \dev_appserver.datastore 
  WARNING  2009-08-04 07:29:45,578 datastore_file_stub.py:404] Could not 
  read data 
  store data from c:\docume~1\geoffk\locals~1\temp 
  \dev_appserver.datastore.history 
  WARNING  2009-08-04 07:29:45,608 dev_appserver.py:3296] Could not 
  initialize ima 
  ges API; you are likely missing the Python "PIL" module. ImportError: 
  No module 
  named _imaging 
  INFO     2009-08-04 07:29:45,625 dev_appserver_main.py:465] Running 
  application 
  ingiliz on port 8080: http://localhost:8080 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>..... 
  Now attempting to browse 
  if need more detail here I can post 
  ..... </p>
  
  <pre><code>    if not settings.DATABASE_ENGINE: 
    File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 
  28, in __ge 
  tattr__ 
      self._import_settings() 
    File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 
  59, in _imp 
  ort_settings 
      self._target = Settings(settings_module) 
    File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 
  94, in __in 
  it__ 
      raise ImportError, "Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on 
  sys.path? Does 
  it have syntax errors?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e) 
  ImportError: Could not import settings 'settings' (Is it on sys.path? 
  Does it ha 
  ve syntax errors?): No module named settings 
  INFO     2009-08-04 07:31:02,187 dev_appserver.py:2982] "GET / HTTP/ 
  1.1" 500 - 
  </code></pre>