Django "Error: cannot import name escape" on windows

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Published on 2010-03-07T08:15:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 15:36 UTC
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I cannot run the dev server because of this error ("Error: cannot import name escape").

I assume its because of modifications I've done to the project, but i have no idea how to find where the error is originating from to fix it.

I don't import anything called escape anywhere.

Update

Using django-admin.py rather than the projects manage.py, don't know why...

Update 2

Now manage.py is working. This may be because I had a file called email.py which was trying to import email.mime.text (ie trying to import itself) renaming to sendemail.py solved this problem.

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