Invalid syntax with Django manage.py createsuperuser remote Terminal Mac

Question

I'm trying to create a superuser on a remote django server. I am running a Mac.

On two separate terminals (not within VSCode or any IDE) I have run the following code using ssh and sftp:

cd my_dir/src
ls                                 # to confirm manage.py is present
python manage.py createsuperuser 
python3 manage.py createsuperuser 
sudo python manage.py createsuperuser
sudo python3 manage.py createsuperuser

On ssh, the python commands result in:

File "manage.py", line 16
    ) from exc
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

On ssh, the python3 commands result in:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in main
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 21, in <module>
    main()
  File "manage.py", line 16, in main
    ) from exc
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?

On sftp, both python and python3 commands result in Invalid command.

I have also tried:

• python manage.py shell (here)
• sudo -i (here)

Any other ideas? Thank you in advance!

Edit: It turned out there was an additional Docker container running on the server, which was why none of the above commands were working.

Answer 1

I made a new question to better reflect that this was an issue with Docker: How to create a python superuser within a remote docker container?

In the mean time, here is the code that did end up fixing the issue:

ssh <remote_address>
cd <application_dir>
cd src
docker ps                               # to determine that docker was present.
docker exec -it <container_id> ls src   # to confirm manage.py is present
docker exec -it <container_id> sh
cd src
python manage.py createsuperuser