django-admin.py startproject mysite not working well on windows 7

Question

Hi I'm learning django and I did successfully start a site on Window XP by following the tutorial.

However, on Window 7 when I issued:

django-admin.py startproject mysite

python.exe was started and a window appeared to ask me to choose either python.exe or other program to open a file....

did I do anthing wrong or there are more tricks for window 7?

thanks.

Answer 1

Issues with path to python.exe or django-admin.py?

Answer 2

i have exactly the same problem here and i have added C:\python installation directory\Scripts

now django-admin.py seems like working but not really

if i type django-admin.py --version

instead of output the version

it output the "help" view...

whatever subcommands i put for django-admin. it doesnt work.

been trying to solve this for an hour..... :(

Answer 3

That's already been reported to the django, see http://bugs.python.org/issue7936 And these's an solution: open regedit and find python.exe like this "C:\Python26\python.exe" "%1" change it to "C:\Python26\python.exe" "%1" %*