Hi Jon, The "python setup.py install" command copies the Django library files to your Python's lib\site-packages directory. You can safely remove the Django archive which you downloaded.
Regards, Wayne 2009/8/17 Jonathan Zacsh <jza...@gmail.com>: > > please, can anyone help me out?? > -- > Jon > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:20 AM, jzacsh<jza...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hello, >> >> i'm sorry - i just want to get started and I'm trying to figure out >> something simple. I installed django last night and am wondering what >> setup.py actually did. >> >> the reason i want to know is: what do i do with the folder of stuff >> that I downloaded from the original tar.gz (I get the impression its >> important, as when i tried to move it I had to use sudo)? so can I >> delete it (when i ran setup.py, it looked like a lot of files were >> copying... maybe it was copied elsewhere anyway so this one isn't >> needed?)? I tried reading docs/intro/install.txt (didn't explain much >> for this purpose) and i tried making sense of the code in setup.py >> (turned out to be a bit over my head). >> >> I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8 >> i'm also trying to teach myself python, so sorry if something here >> might seem obvious. >> and i know there is a useful docs folder in there, but i'm using >> docs.djangoproject.com >> (maybe someone wants to advise me: "django is gonna be WAY over your >> head if you don't have a good grasp of python"?) >> >> thanks for any help! :) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
