Why does the startproject command open a file instead of creating project folders

[Gideon Bar]

Hello

I am new to Django and followed this tutorial https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-startproject

I am using windows 7 64 bit and the startproject command on open a file instead of creating project folders

How can I create a project from the command line?

[Ivan Ramirez]

I had the exact problem today when going through the first part. This worked for me:

python “C:\Program Files\Anaconda\Scripts\django-admin.py” startproject mysite

[Tom Evans]

django-admin.py is a python file. Under windows, what happens when you
run a file is determined by it's extension, and on your system python
files have been configured to open in a text editor when "run",
instead of being run by the python interpreter.

You can either change this so that windows instead runs the python
interpreter, or you can explicitly run python, passing the full path
to the django-admin.py script as the first argument.

Cheers

Tom