ImportError: cannot import name 'gettext_lazy' from partially initialized module 'django.utils.translation'

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Hello Django developer,

How can I solve this error? I show Django documentation in a new version.(Translation | Django documentation | Django). I’ve read it , and I still can’t get it to work.

ImportError: cannot import name 'gettext_lazy' from partially initialized module 'django.utils.translation'

Any sort of help would be highly appreciated.

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This partically initilized error might happen when you have file with the same name as the thing you are trying to import. Is that the case?

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This is error shown:

 raise ImportError(
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?

I’ve already used virtualenv. How should I fix it, I’ve installed Django, all packages and dependencies.

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Please post the complete traceback for the error you’re getting.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\' '\Desktop\spine\manage.py", line 11, in main
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
  File "C:\Users\' '\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from django.core.management.base import (
  File "C:\Users\' '\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 13, in <module>
    from django.core import checks
  File "C:\Users\' '\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
    import django.core.checks.translation  # NOQA isort:skip
  File "C:\Users\' '\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\core\checks\translation.py", line 2, in <module>
    from django.utils.translation import get_supported_language_variant
  File "C:\Users\'  '\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
ImportError: cannot import name 'gettext_lazy' from partially initialized module 'django.utils.translation' (most likely due to a circular import) (C:\Users\' '\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\__init__.py)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\'  '\Desktop\spine\manage.py", line 22, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\' '\Desktop\spine\manage.py", line 13, in main
    raise ImportError(
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?
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Hi there,
I have the same issue ImportError: cannot import name ‘ugettext’ from ‘django.utils.translation’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/translation/init.py). Did you mean: ‘gettext’?
I am using Django==4.2. Thank you in advance for your help.

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This is a different issue.

ugettext was deprecated in Django 3.0. See Django 3.0 release notes | Django documentation | Django

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Hi @KenWhitesell, sorry for the late response if you’re working on Django 4.* then just use gettext_lazy instead of “ugettext”.