title: '<frozen importlib._bootstrap>' django error
body: <p>I have been receiving the error below, whenever I wish to run the server (python manage.py runserver)</p>
  <p>However as of late, I have been getting the error below.</p>
  <p>The last thing that I did was carry out tests for my project over a week ago.</p>
  <pre><code>Exception in thread django-main-thread:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\threading.py&quot;, line 932, in _bootstrap_inner
     self.run()
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\threading.py&quot;, line 870, in run
     self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 53, in wrapper
     fn(*args, **kwargs)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py&quot;, line 110, in inner_run
     autoreload.raise_last_exception()
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 76, in raise_last_exception
     raise _exception[1]
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py&quot;, line 357, in execute
     autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)()
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 53, in wrapper
     fn(*args, **kwargs)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\__init__.py&quot;, line 24, in setup
     apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py&quot;, line 91, in populate
     app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\apps\config.py&quot;, line 90, in create
     module = import_module(entry)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\importlib\__init__.py&quot;, line 127, in import_module
     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
   File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 1014, in _gcd_import
   File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 991, in _find_and_load
   File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 973, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django_filters'
  Traceback (most recent call last):
   File &quot;manage.py&quot;, line 21, in &lt;module&gt;
     main()
   File &quot;manage.py&quot;, line 17, in main
     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py&quot;, line 401, in execute_from_command_line
     utility.execute()
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py&quot;, line 395, in execute
     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py&quot;, line 330, in run_from_argv
     self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py&quot;, line 61, in execute
     super().execute(*args, **options)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py&quot;, line 371, in execute
     output = self.handle(*args, **options)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py&quot;, line 96, in handle
     self.run(**options)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py&quot;, line 103, in run
     autoreload.run_with_reloader(self.inner_run, **options)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 613, in run_with_reloader
     start_django(reloader, main_func, *args, **kwargs)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 598, in start_django
     reloader.run(django_main_thread)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 313, in run
     self.run_loop()
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 319, in run_loop
     next(ticker)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 359, in tick
     for filepath, mtime in self.snapshot_files():
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 375, in snapshot_files
     for file in self.watched_files():
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 274, in watched_files
     yield from iter_all_python_module_files()
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 105, in iter_all_python_module_files
     return iter_modules_and_files(modules, frozenset(_error_files))
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py&quot;, line 141, in iter_modules_and_files
     resolved_path = path.resolve(strict=True).absolute()
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\pathlib.py&quot;, line 1177, in resolve
     s = self._flavour.resolve(self, strict=strict)
   File &quot;C:\Python38\lib\pathlib.py&quot;, line 200, in resolve
     return self._ext_to_normal(_getfinalpathname(s))
  OSError: [WinError 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: '&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;'
  
  
  </code></pre>
  <p>Is there a way to resolve this issue as shown above?</p>
  <p>A few days ago, I let run these automatic updates on my admin power shell terminal.</p>
  <p>I believe this allowed it self to update versions of individual software packages, will I have to use something docker, to create a virtual environment for version control of my project?</p>