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Django tutorial says I haven't set the DATABASE_ENGINE setting yet ... but I have

I am working on a Django tutorial and getting the following error when starting the original python manage.py syncdb:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 11, in <module>
  execute_manager(settings)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 362 in execute_manager
  utility.execute()
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 303, in execute
  self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 195, in run_from_argv
  self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 222, in execute
  output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 351, in handle
  return self.handle_noargs(**options)
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/syncdb.py", line 49, in handle_noargs
  cursor = connection.cursor()
File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/dummy/base.py", line 15, in complain
  raise ImproperlyConfigured, "You haven't set the DATABASE_ENGINE setting yet."
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You haven't set the DATABASE_ENGINE setting yet.

My settings.py options are as follows:

DATABASES = {
  'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
    'NAME': 'dj_tut',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
    'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
    'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
    'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
    'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
  }
}

I suppose this is something simple, but why doesn't he see the ENGINE installation?

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It looks like you are using an earlier version of Django. This way to configure the database configuration is in Django 1.2, but the error you get is from 1.1. If you are using version 1.1, use this version of the tutorial .

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'ENGINE': 'mysql',
'NAME': 'dj_tut',

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The same problem often occurred to me, and each time the problem was cyclical dependencies between sttings.py and another module.

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At the command line you should write:

edit settings.py

then a new module for editing will appear

settings.py
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