Django Storages - Could Not Load Amazon's S3 Bindings Errors

Do you have python-boto installed?
pip install boto or pip install boto3

Consider using boto3 instead of the older boto:

requirements.txt:

pip install django-storages
pip install boto3

settings.py:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage'

Had this issue recently on TravisCI with a Django repo

Running python manage.py compress failed with the error:

Could not load Boto's S3 bindings.

It happened to be an issue with boto trying to import google-compute-engine module that was not installed.

One way to fix the problem is by installing GCE engine with

pip install google-compute-engine

EDIT:

After investigation, it appears that this particular problem is due to Travis being on GCE, and GCE having a default /etc/boto.cfg file, which prompts boto to look for the GCE engine.

Another way to fix this problem on Travis without installing more dependencies is to set the default config with BOTO_CONFIG to point to nowhere by setting the variable

BOTO_CONFIG=/tmp

in your travis.yml

See this Issue https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/3741