django-admin.py the system cannot execute the specified program

[about2flip]

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

[Karen Tracey]

"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

[about2flip]

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?

[Peter Bengtsson]

about2flip
You have to go through the python tutorial I'm afraid.
Python files must be written in plain text so you have to use
something like Notepad.