ImportError: No module named django_filters

I also had the same issue. Even after installing django-filters I couldn't import it

ImportError: No module named django_filters

The Django version I'm using is 1.8 and python version is 2.7.x

Solution is to install djangorestframework-filters

pip install djangorestframework-filters

The names are very confusing.

However django-rest-framework-filters is an extension to Django REST framework and Django filter that makes it easy to filter across relationships while Django-filter is a reusable Django application allowing users to declaratively add dynamic QuerySet filtering from URL parameters.

I had a similar issue using django 1.7, djangorestframework==3.2.0 and latest django-filter==0.13.0:

Using DjangoFilterBackend, but django-filter is not installed
cannot import name Expression

I finally fixed it by downgrading django-filter to 0.11.

Now pip freeze looks like this and its working:

Django==1.7
django-filter==0.11.0
djangorestframework==3.2.0

I also encountered this issue installing django-filter==2.2.0

This was my Django version:

Django [required: >=1.11, installed: 2.2]

settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'django_filter',
]

This is the correct installation:

pipenv install django-filter

Hope it helps.

My pip version was old, really old. 1.5.6 When I installed my virtual environment it just worked, so I didn't question. Lesson learned! Here is what I did in case it helps someone else...

In the virtual environment, I installed pip as described in the docs: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing.html python get-pip.py This upgraded me to pip 6.1.1

pip install django-filter
pip freeze > requirements.txt

Reading requirements.txt showed I had

django-filter==0.9.2
django-filters==0.1.0

So I uninstalled the older version with pip uninstall django-filters

notice the s on the older version but not on the new one

Really basic stuff but it really tripped me up. Thanks to anyone who took time to look into this!