django-admin.py is not working properly

Question

I have just spotted that something is wrong with my django-admin.py command. I checked similar SO posts on django-admin.py problems but nothing seems to be related to my pro

Answer 1

The problem in my case was the I've lost .py file association rules.

If you have similar problem you can check in command line what is the result of:

assoc .py

If there is no such association you need to create it:

assoc .py=Python.File

and create rule for Python.File:

ftype Python.File="c:\python27\python.exe" "%1" %*

(Replace with whatever the path is to your python interpretter.)

now django-admin.py accepts command line args and everything works fine!

Answer 2

This would be better as it does not require touching the registry at all:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10732170/1585863