Wacky installer behavior

How to get a broken virtual environment:

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ virtualenv -p python2 .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install django==1.3.7

If you try to run or make a new project your project will not work well. Because pip collects all non-pythonic django files (images, html, css, js, and files of locale) and installs to the new different folder. For example:

$ find .venv -iname *.css -print
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/login.css
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/base.css
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/widgets.css
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/forms.css
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/dashboard.css
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/ie.css
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/rtl.css
.venv/django/contrib/admin/media/css/changelists.css

The original path according to django archive for these files must be .venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/css/

And if you install django from archive:

$ python Django-1.3.7/setup.py install

Your project will works fine.

Can anybody explain why and how to fix it? P.S. --no-binary doesn’t help (and doesn’t have to)

Environment

• pip version: 19.1.1
• Python version: python 2.7
• OS: Linux dell 5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 25 04:49:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Also you can reproduce from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS x86_64)

[ak4nv]

Regarding my issue… Django 1.3.7 installed via pip

1. Can’t find locale files
2. Can’t find admin media files
3. Can’t find admin templates

If you’ve got the same just add this code into your settings.py

import os

def abs_path(*x):
    return os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), *x)

PROJECT_ROOT = abs_path()
VIRTUAL_ENV = os.getenv('VIRTUAL_ENV', '.venv')

def find_folders(folder):
    return tuple(os.path.join(root, folder)
                 for root, dirs, files in os.walk(PROJECT_ROOT)
                 if folder in dirs)


LOCALE_PATHS = find_folders('locale')
TEMPLATE_DIRS = find_folders('templates')
ADMIN_MEDIA_ROOT = abs_path(PROJECT_ROOT, VIRTUAL_ENV,
                            'contrib', 'admin', 'media')

[pradyunsg]

Thanks for filing this and closing this.

A tiny little nit-bit of advice: You should really be using a more modern version of Django and please ask any further Django related queries on a channel where people more directly related to Django would respond - https://www.djangoproject.com/community/