Question: I get the error below when I add 'graphene_django' inside INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py. After running python3 manage.py runserver  graphene_django is installed successfully using pip install django graphene_django  This is full error that I get: Watching for file changes with StatReloader Exception in thread django-main-thread: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 973, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 910, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 115, in inner_run autoreload.raise_last_exception() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 87, in raise_last_exception raise _exception[1] File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 381, in execute autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 24, in setup apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 91, in populate app_config = AppConfig.create(entry) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 223, in create import_module(entry) File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1030, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/graphene_django/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from .fields import DjangoConnectionField, DjangoListField File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/graphene_django/fields.py", line 18, in <module> from .utils import maybe_queryset File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/graphene_django/utils/__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from .utils import ( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/graphene_django/utils/utils.py", line 6, in <module> from django.utils.encoding import force_text ImportError: cannot import name 'force_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py)  Any idea on what's going wrong here?

Answer: force_text is removed from Django 4.0 You can add this code to top of your settings.py : import django from django.utils.encoding import force_str django.utils.encoding.force_text = force_str