I'm getting the same

Same here with a today's checkout

I'm also getting the same with 0.97-pre-SVN-7543

same today, bummer...i hope this gets fixed

I'd like to see this fixed as well.

Yes, me too (both trunk version django and tagging)

me too :)

Same here.

Same...

if your like me then you get this message from within the python interpreter. Well I
figured out that I need to be running the"python manage.py shell" command from within
the site DIR to get all the environment variables correct.

The setup.py script imports the tagging module to extra its version information. 
Unfortunately, the tagging module's __init__.py file globally imports some models
which rely on the rest of Django's infrastructure to be up and running (hence the
need for settings).

Running the installation from with "python manage.py shell" as Dankles suggests
solves the problem, or you can move the this line in tagging.__init__.py:

    from tagging.managers import ModelTaggedItemManager, TagDescriptor

... down into the register() function so that those modules aren't imported by
default just to query the VERSION value.

I'm having the same problem.
Can't even start python manage.py shell without a: "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'tagging'"
... maybe it's the 1.0 alpha... 

the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE error has nothing to do with tagging - it means your
environment isn't setup right for django, nothing more

You could remove the "version_tuple = __import__('tagging').VERSION" from the
setup.py file and explicitly set the version_tuple. 

It's really important to have python setup.py <commands> working.

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 66daf3e..728be22 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(tagging_dir):
         data_files.append([dirpath, [os.path.join(dirpath, f) for f in filenames]])
 
 # Dynamically calculate the version based on tagging.VERSION
-version_tuple = __import__('tagging').VERSION
+#version_tuple = __import__('tagging').VERSION
+version_tuple = (0, 3, 'pre')
 if version_tuple[2] is not None:
     version = "%d.%d_%s" % version_tuple
 else:

Dirty, dirty, filthy ugly hack that works (tested on Slackware Linux 12.1.0/-current,
should work with no problems on other Unices - going by the Python documentation for
the os module, may present with issues on FreeBSD/OSX. Unknown behaviour on Win32).

Involves setting an environment variable in setup.py (DJANGO_TAGGING_SETUP = "Yes")
and checking for that in __init__. Not as simple as simply hardcoding the
version_tuple into setup.py.

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If you add

from django.conf import settings
settings.configure()

to setup.py it will fix the error you are getting.

Eric's solution worked for me, and seems like the simplest fix. 

Cheers!

eric is absolutely right. follow the same codes
great eric

Hi all i get on error with eric's method

error creating tagging folder in python folder django

i.e.

creating /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/tagging
error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/tagging': Permission denied

Eric's solution worked a treat for me too

Thats Eric. Solution given by you works! :)

This shouldn't be a problem anymore since setup.py doesn't import from version from tagging/__init__.py any 
longer. Report new issues as they come up.

Seems like this should be fixed but I still get the error. I have to do all the steps
in Eric's post to import tagging after a fresh install. I am using django1.1 and
python2.6

$ sudo pip install django-tagging
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Jun  8 2009, 16:07:29) 
[GCC 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tagging
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "tagging/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from tagging.managers import ModelTaggedItemManager, TagDescriptor
  File "tagging/managers.py", line 5, in <module>
    from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py", line
1, in <module>
    from django.db import models
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    if not settings.DATABASE_ENGINE:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 269, in
__getattr__
    self._setup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 38, in _setup
    raise ImportError("Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable %s
is undefined." % ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE)
ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.
>>> from django.conf import settings
>>> settings.configure()
>>> import tagging
>>> tagging.VERSION
(0, 4, 'pre')
>>> 

Erics's solution fixed the problem for me.
Thanks

Hey @rajeeja, 
Try this command 
sudo python setup.py install

Eric's solution fixed the problem for me, only after I used ardaeren13's suggestion. Thanks both.