Re: Help with Django installation on windows

On 2013-09-21, at 1:27 PM, Poom Buncha <pbuncha09@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> First off, I like to say that I am a beginner to everything related to computing. So I have to appologize a head of time if what I am asking is common sense.
> I'm trying to install Django on my windows computer
>
> So I install Python 2.7 (and went throught the tutorial)
> I downloaded the django tar file. and extracted the content using 7zip program.
> I did not know where to put it so I put it into the Python folder
>
> when I open up a comand prompt for python I type in "import django" and "django.get_version()" those commands seem to run fine
> but when I type in
> "django-admin.py startproject mysite" I get an error message that say the name admin is not define. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide. And if anyone have any tip and best practices that they can share with me about getting started in Django it will be greatly appreciated
>

I'm afraid I can't offer specific advice for Windows. But I can recommend that you use virtualenv and pip for everything involving python beyond your initial python installation. You will find your environment to be more maintainable and repeatable.

Good luck!

- Tom

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