Manage.py runserver is showing somthing else

[Divya Rajpurohit]

I started learning django a few days ago & i am trying to run a example project for a demo but when i put this command "manage.py runserver" it show so many lines on cmd promt & at end line showing 'invalid character' it's not showing those result which showed in documentation of django & for this i check my environment path but it having that /python36 i am using python in windows os if anyone knows what's going wrong tell me waiting for reply

[Vijay Khemlani]

Please copy and paste the whole stack trace (the messages on the command prompt)

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Divya Rajpurohit <akkmhad...@gmail.com> wrote:

I started learning django a few days ago & i am trying to run a example project for a demo but when i put this command "manage.py runserver" it show so many lines on cmd promt & at end line showing 'invalid character' it's not showing those result which showed in documentation of django & for this i check my environment path but it having that /python36 i am using python in windows os if anyone knows what's going wrong tell me waiting for reply

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[ludovic coues]

Without the stack trace, it's hard to tell what is wrong, but my first guess would be that you saved at least one file as utf8 with BOM. Or some other encoding not understood by python.

Explaining what that means is a bit technical. Text file are really a list of rather small number. Each letter is given a code composed of one or more number. If the text file and python use different encoding, you can get sequence of number which corresponds to no character. That one way to get an invalid character.

Another way is the BOM symbol. That's two number placed at the start of a file encoded as utf8. But if the app reading the file don't expect the BOM, it will try to turn it into a letter and get an invalid character.

If you have an invalid character on the first line, first letter, there is a good chance the problem is BOM.

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[Karthik Chowdary]

Yes, we need some stack trace to know whats the problem. Please copy and paste your error.

I'm not familiar with windows OS when it comes to CMD. Try this "python manage.py runserver 80" instead of "manage.py runserver" and make sure you use CMD with administrative access.