Error importing storage module.whitenoise.django
<p>I'm trying to deploy a basic Django app to Heroku, but am getting an error when I try to deploy.</p>

<p>It looks like the error is with <em>whitenoise</em>. I have <em>six</em> installed as part of my requirements so it should handle urllib.parse.</p>

<p>Here is the error:</p>

<pre><code>remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 290, in get_storage_class
remote:            raise ImproperlyConfigured('Error importing storage module %s: "%s"' % (module, e))
remote:        django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error importing storage module whitenoise.django: "No module named urllib.parse"
remote: 
remote:  !     Error while running '$ python manage.py collectstatic --noinput'.
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<p>Here is the full stack:</p>

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remote: -----&gt; Python app detected
remote: -----&gt; Uninstalling stale dependencies
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remote:      $ pip install -r requirements.txt
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remote:        Collecting dbf==0.94.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 6))
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remote:        Collecting dj-database-url==0.4.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 7))
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remote:        Collecting Django==1.5.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 8))
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remote:        Collecting xattr==0.6.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 35))
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remote:        Collecting gevent (from grequests==0.2.0-&gt;-r requirements.txt (line 12))
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remote:        Collecting jdcal (from openpyxl==2.0.3-&gt;-r requirements.txt (line 20))
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remote:        Installing collected packages: altgraph, bdist-mpkg, Pygments, bpython, xlrd, python-dateutil, SQLAlchemy, jdcal, openpyxl, dbf, csvkit, Cython, dj-database-url, Django, future, futures, greenlet, gevent, requests, grequests, gunicorn, humanize, iso8601, six, singledispatch, livestreamer, macholib, modulegraph, MySQL-python, py2app, pycrypto, pycurl, pyOpenSSL, pyparsing, pytz, virtualenv, whitenoise, xattr, zope.interface
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remote:            Running setup.py install for pyparsing: finished with status 'done'
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remote: 
remote:      $ python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
remote:        Traceback (most recent call last):
remote:          File "manage.py", line 10, in &lt;module&gt;
remote:            execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 453, in execute_from_command_line
remote:            utility.execute()
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute
remote:            self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 272, in fetch_command
remote:            klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 78, in load_command_class
remote:            return module.Command()
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 58, in __init__
remote:            self.storage.path('')
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 204, in inner
remote:            self._setup()
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 307, in _setup
remote:            self._wrapped = get_storage_class(settings.STATICFILES_STORAGE)()
remote:          File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 290, in get_storage_class
remote:            raise ImproperlyConfigured('Error importing storage module %s: "%s"' % (module, e))
remote:        django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error importing storage module whitenoise.django: "No module named urllib.parse"
remote: 
remote:  !     Error while running '$ python manage.py collectstatic --noinput'.
remote:        See traceback above for details.
remote: 
remote:        You may need to update application code to resolve this error.
remote:        Or, you can disable collectstatic for this application:
remote: 
remote:           $ heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1
remote: 
remote:        https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets
remote:  !     Push rejected, failed to compile Python app.
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<p>You're using an unsupported version of Django. Django 1.5 has been out of mainstream support for three years, and out of extended support for two.
See here: <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions" rel="nofollow">https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions</a></p>

<p>The latest version of WhiteNoise is tested with Django 1.8 and up.</p>

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