Django- ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
In the django project, everything was working fine, but when I created .env file and imported variables from .env to settings.py, it started to show this error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\django\udemyProject\siddthoughts\manage.py", line 22, in <module>
main()
File "F:\django\udemyProject\siddthoughts\manage.py", line 18, in main
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "F:\django\udemyProject\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 446, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "F:\django\udemyProject\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 386, in execute
settings.INSTALLED_APPS
File "F:\django\udemyProject\venv\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 92, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File "F:\django\udemyProject\venv\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 79, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File "F:\django\udemyProject\venv\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 190, in __init__
mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
File "C:\Python\Python310\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "F:\django\udemyProject\siddthoughts\siddthoughts\settings.py", line 15, in <module>
import environ
File "F:\django\udemyProject\venv\lib\site-packages\environ\__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
from .environ import *
File "F:\django\udemyProject\venv\lib\site-packages\environ\environ.py", line 38, in <module>
from .fileaware_mapping import FileAwareMapping
ValueError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
All files are showing UTF8 in vs code and I am in my same project's virtual environment and using python interpreter from it only.
can somebody tell me what exactly is happening and how to resolve it.