Importerror: Could Not Import 'rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.jwtauthentication'

I am trying to deploy a django app on GCP but when i try to make migrations it gives me this error: ImportError: Could not import 'rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.JWTAut

Solution 1:

It seems you are confusing two packages. djangorestframework-jwt which you have in your requirements.txt is no longer maintained. It provides the rest_framework_jwt.authentication.JSONWebTokenAuthentication authentication class.

However, the one you are actually using, rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.JWTAuthentication, comes from the pip package djangorestframework_simplejwt

So you need to update your requirements.txt. Remove djangorestframework-jwt and add djangorestframework_simplejwt

Solution 2:

If anyone still encountering this error, this is the requirements for djangorestframework-simplejwt:

Python (3.6, 3.7, 3.8)
Django (2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0)
Django REST Framework (3.8, 3.9, 3.10)

I downgraded Django & DRF and the problem is solved for me.

pip uninstall django
pip uninstall djangorestframework
pip install --upgrade django==3.0
pip install --upgrade djangorestframework==3.10
pip install djangorestframework-simplejwt

Solution 3:

for me the djangorestframework-simplejwt upgrade from 4.4.0 to current latest version 4.6.0 fixed the problem.

pip3 install --upgrade djangorestframework-simplejwt

Solution 4:

I encountered same error when attempting to deploy on Heroku

Upon investigating I found 2 issues in my case:

1] requirements.txt --> This file was not updated and therefore 'git add' and 'git commit' did not pickup the new requirement for djangorestframework-simplejwt

So the solution here was to do a fresh pip freeze > requirements.txt, git add/commit and confirm that on Heroku

2] Secondly I found that Heroku was not finding the v4.6.0 which my python3.8 had installed locally. Instead, I had to edit the requirements.txt to v4.4.0 (current on the pypi.org), redo the git add/commit before this problem was resolved

Solution 5:

For me issue solverd by restarting virtual environment