How to solve SyntaxError on autogenerated manage.py?

Question

I\'m following the Django tutorial https://docs.djangoproject.com/es/1.10/intro/tutorial01/

I\'ve created a \"mysite\" dummy project (my very first one) and try to

Answer 1

I had this issue (Mac) and followed the instructions on the below page to install and activate the virtual environment

https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/

$ cd [ top-level-django-project-dir ]

$ python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

$ python3 -m venv env

$ source env/bin/activate

Once I had installed and activated the virtual env I checked it

$ which python

Then I installed django into the virtual env

$ pip install django

And then I could run my app

$ python3 manage.py runserver

When I got to the next part of the tutorial

$ python manage.py startapp polls

I encountered another error:

     File "manage.py", line 16

   ) from exc
            ^

   SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I removed

from exc

and it then created the polls directory