PythonAnywhere "Cannot import name dateparse" - pythonanywhere

Question

I am following instructions from this site.
I am doing this in PythonAnywhere.
When I run this code:
>>> from provider.oauth2.models import Client
>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
>>> u = User.objects.get(id=1)
>>> c = Client(user=u, name="mysite client", client_type=1,url="http://ianalexandr.com")
>>> c.save()
>>> c.client_id
'd63f53a7a6cceba04db5'
>>> c.client_secret
'afe899288b9ac4127d57f2f12ac5a49d839364dc'
I get this error:
line 5, in <module>
from django.utils import dateparse
ImportError: cannot import name dateparse
I am not sure if PythonAnywhere does have dateparse in its library.
and if not, then how can i include dateparse?

Answer 1

Your version of Django is too old. utils.dateparse was introduced in 1.4.
Version 1.3 is almost ancient, and not supported anymore by the Django developers (that is, there will be no security updates).
Consider upgrading to a more recent version if you can. Upgrading to 1.4 (with long term support) will break the least, or upgrade to 1.7 which is the most recent version, but may break most old code.
Edit
I just saw Glenn's note; that explains how you can work around this problem, since the current 1.3 version appears to be pretty much fixed.