On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM, kkaste <finnka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I followed the instructions for installing django. Apparently this was > successful because I have a folder named django under the site- > packages folder of Python26, and a file named django-admin.py in the > bin folder under that. So with that success under my belt, I followed > the prompts on the django website and moved on to the tutorial. The > instructions are "From the command line, cd into a directory where > you’d like to store your code, then run the command django-admin.py > startproject mysite." I did that but I get the following error: 'djano- > admin.py' is not recognized as an internal or external command... So I > tried the following command: import django. Again I got the error: > 'import' is not recognized as an internal or external command... > > I know I must be doing something dumb, but I don't know what. I am > coming from ColdFusion trying to learn Django. I am not used to using > the DOS command line. Am I executing these commands from the wrong > directory? Please be kind to my ignorance. If your answer includes > terms like "system path", or anything else that is not plain English, > please try to give me a full explanation. > > Much appreciated, > kkaste > > > > You're problem is that you're typing commands liek import django at the DOS command, instead of at the Python prompt. Any command prefixed with >>> means it needs to be executed in a python shell. The reason you can't do django-admin.py is because it's not on your PATH, someone more familiar with windows could tell you how to alter that, but for now you can get to it by providing it's fully qualified location.
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