django-admin.py prints help only

Question

I am using django 1.3.1

I followed the online tutorial and tried to use \"django-admin.py startproject mysite\".

But I　always receive this:

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Answer 1

Try giving the full path to the project dir even though it's in your PATH

Answer 2

If you are on Windows 7, update the registry entry at:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\python.exe\shell\open\command

to have the value:

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

(modify the above value if you have installed python in a different location)

Answer 3

1. Open regedit
2. go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\py_auto_file\shell\open\command
3. change to "C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*

It works for me.

Answer 4

I had exactly the same problem and solved it using this tool: FileTypesManager

The problem is that django-admin.py is not receiving the correct arguments from the command line. I did a test by hacking a couple of lines into the front of the admin script to display the number of arguments and what they were before it did anything else. The hack:

    #!d:\python27\python.exe
    from django.core import management
    import sys
    print 'Number of arguments:', len(sys.argv), 'arguments.'
    print 'Argument List:', str(sys.argv)

    if __name__ == "__main__":
       management.execute_from_command_line()

When you run django-admin.py you will see that there is only 1 argument ever being passed. Which is not correct.

As suggested in several forums, I tried both of the following at the command line, and both looked spot on:

    assoc .py            -->  .py=Python.File
    ftype Python.File    -->  Python.File="D:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*   //Correct

I then looked in the registry and the values looked good as well.

However, when I ran FileTypesManager, (it's free) it showed something different. The command-line was set as:

   "D:\Python27\python.exe" "%1"      //Wrong!

I have no idea why, but as soon as I updated this value it all worked flawlessly.

I hope that helps.

Answer 5

In regedit under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\python.exe\shell\open\command
modify the entry from

"<your drive>:\Python<version>\python.exe" "%1"

to

"<your drive>:\Python<version>\python.exe" "%1" %*

I had the same problem and I resolved it this way.

Answer 6

In case anyone still has this problem, there is no need to mess with your registry. Here is the answer you need: here

Basically it's:

Add 'python' before django-admin.py (or add full path to python.exe).

C:\Shekhar\djangoWorld>python c:\Python27\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject mysite

Which means you are running the django-admin.py as an arguement to the python interpreter; as against running it as a stand-alone script, in which case it doesn't actually get the supplied arguements for some reason.