creating project in Django

[Mariusz Wilk]

according to the official tutorial I need to type the following to the cmd in the directory where I want to create my project.:

django-admin.py startproject mysite

I created a folder named "site" on my desktop, cd into it and typed the obove command. Nothing appeared in "site". Instead, Python authomatically opened with the following:

#!C:\Python27\python.exe

from django.core import management

if __name__ == "__main__":

    management.execute_from_command_line()

Do you know what's going on?

[Collin Anderson]

Try this:

python django-admin.py startproject mysite

[Collin Anderson]

This might also work, without the .py:

django-admin startproject mysite

[Mariusz Wilk]

the first one returns: No such file or directory

the second one: Not recognised as a command (my translation from Polish)

This worked before (a week ago):

django-admin.py startproject mysite

But then I deleted the whole mysite folder (cause of some problems) and started all over again. Now I can't even start a new project.  

[Mariusz Wilk]

I even uninstalled Django and installed it again. But the problem (from the first post) remains.

[Kelly Nicholes]

Django-admin has to be on your environments path. Find where your Django-admin.oh file is and do the whole path. python c:\...\Django-admin.python startproject myproject. Maybe you forgot to activate your virtualenv?

Sorry about random capitalization. Typed on my phone.

[Collin Anderson]

my guess is your python installation is messed up, which is why it's opening IDLE instead of running your program. reinstalling python might fix it.