Django--django-admin.py on windows does not work

Question

I am just starting Django these days but I cannot run this command

    django-admin.py startproject myproject

Well, CMD does not prompt to say that this command is not recognized. Instead, it just open up my Sublime with the file django-admin.py open. and of course no folder named myproject is created inside the current folder.

I managed to start a Django project by typing commands like

    python C:\Python27\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject myproject

But when I omit the part about the absolute path information of django-admin.py, then the command does not work, saying python cannot find such a file inside the current directory.

is there any way I should try to use shorter commands? (PS: I do have C:\Python27\ and C:\Python27\Scripts\ in the PATH)

Answer 1

The easiest way (recommended by the docs) is to just copy django-admin.py to your project's directory.

Technical details: There are workaround in setuptools to make entry points work correctly on Windows, by installing a .exe file that will run correctly even if Python is not set as the default handler for .py files, but Django is not using setuptools but distutils directly. I am not aware of any discussion about moving to setuptools.

Alternatively you can set python.exe as the default program to open .py files, instead of your text editor.