Thank you very much for your quick response. That seems to have fixed it. The site I used was http://codemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/12/py-association-in-vistawindows-missing.html . I had to go into the windows registry, into the Computer/ HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\python.exe\shell\open\command and change the append a %* to the key which said "C:\Python26\python.exe" "%1" .
This was a real bear to figure out. Thanks again On Dec 19, 7:25 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Bob <bshumsk...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to get started with django on windows vista. I have > > successfully installed it as "import django" works in python. > > However, whenever I try at the command prompt > > "django-admin.py startproject myproject" > > I get "Type 'django-admin.py help' for usage". > > I have tried four installs on 3 different machines and each time I get > > this. What am I doing wrong? > > Something is broken with the association of .py files to the python > executable on the Vista machines -- whatever association is in place is not > passing arguments along. I don't know why this happens but I know I've seen > it reported before. I also don't have a Vista machine so I can't describe > how to fix it but if you Google terms like Vista .py association you'll find > plenty of hits of people who have run into the same thing, and some describe > ways to fix the association. > > Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
