Django installation problem on Windows

Question

Hi,

I am trying to install Django on Windows XP. Here is what I did:

(1) Downloaded and installed Python 2.7 from

http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7/python-2.7.msi

in C:\Python27

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(2) Downloaded Django 1.2.1 from

http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.2.1/tarball/

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(3). After unzipping the file I placed Django's folder inside Python's site packages folder as below:

C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\Django-1.2.1

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(4). Now when I try to run "setup.py" in Django folder, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\Django-1.2.1\setup.py", line 48, in <module>
    root_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
NameError: name '__file__' is not defined

Screenshot can be seen below:

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

Delete C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\Django-1.2.1

Unzip tarball anywhere you want, then copy "django" subfolder from unpacked tarball into c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\, and you're done. You don't need to run setup.py actually.

If you want to install using setup.py, then open your command shell (press Win+R, type "cmd" and press Enter), change into dir you unpacked archive to (e.g. c:\archive\Django-1.2.1), and run "C:\Python27\python.exe setup.py install" without quotes.

Important note: you must run command shell with administrator privileges.

Answer 2

Alternative method

1. Install easy_install : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
2. Add C:\Python27\Scripts to your system path
3. Open a command line and enter easy_install django

easy_install is defintely my favorite method for installing python modules.