django-admin.py is not working

Question

Am new to django and i have been trying to set up a project with no success. When i type django-admin.py startproject mysite i get this.

C:\\Users\\WASSWA SA         


        

Answer 1

This is an error with Python's installation on Windows. If you have the regkey entry

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\py_auto_file\shell\command\open\

change the value from

"C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1"

to

"C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*

(Or your equivalent installation location)

This ensures that command-line arguments are passed onto python, rather than explicitly ignored. This is fixed in the latest install of Python 2.7. %* is argv[]. "%1" is the script's absolute path.