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:

D:\Code\djtest>django-admin.py startproject mysite
Usage: django-admin.py subcommand [options] [args]

Options:
  -v VERBOSITY, --verbosity=VERBOSITY
(...)

What is going on?

Answer 1

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.