Thanks for reply. No I get:
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

I am running it from my command prompt:>>python hello.py

Is that correct?



On Sep 13, 10:29 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, about2flip <mnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am learning django, and I am having doubts if it is worth it. I am
> > trying to startproject and I keep getting the system cannot execute
> > the specified program error at my command prompt. I would type:
>
> > django-admin.py startproject name
>
> > and then I get the error. I am using python 2.6, django 1.1 on XP SP2
> > machine.
>
> > Thanks for your help on what to do to fix this issue
>
> "Cannot execute the specified program" generally means the system can't find
> some DLL needed for the program.  Django doesn't have any DLLs, so I suspect
> your python installation may be the cause of the problem.  Can you run any
> python program?  For example if you create a hello.py file with contents:
>
> print 'hello'
>
> Can you run it?
>
> Karen
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