In pycharm can I run every file for django?
<p>I'm new to Django. My localhost site is running fine. Since I am using pycharm it is easy to run any file. I decided to run each file in my django project, and came across several errors, such as this one in my views.py:</p>

<pre><code>django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE, but settings are not configured. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.
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<p>Even though the site is running, what seems like properly, I'm seeing this message. What is causing this, and is it typical?</p>

<p>You cannot run each file present in your django project individual.</p>

<p>No matter those are file with <code>.py</code> extension. They depend on the django framework to get the project running.</p>

<p>The reason you might be seeing that error is because you might be using the attributes present in the <code>settings.py</code> file which in turn requires django to set the application running like starting the <code>WSGI</code> server, getting all the dependencies and the <code>installed apps</code> ready before you actually use anything. </p>

<p>Understand that Django is  a Framework and it relies on many underlying components to actually work. Even thought you can technically run any file in any manner, you cannot start the application itself. </p>

<p>There are other ways to do it if you like to test the application like using <code>django shell</code> by <code>python manage.py shell</code> to check and test the application, which would be a better way of doing individual testing rather than running each file standalone. </p>

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