Thanks for your quick response. Once I switched from the DOS command
line to the Python prompt I got "import django" to work. The next dumb
mistake I am making comes when I type django-admin.py startproject
mysite at the Python prompt. I get the following error:
File "<stdin>", line 1
django-admin.py startproject scripts
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Do I need to create something before I do this command?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
kkaste
On Mar 2, 5:24 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Alex
>
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