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Marijus
Marijus

Reputation: 4375

django-admin.py startproject opens notepad, instead of creating a project

Hey, so basically when I try to django-admin.py startproject mysite my notepad with django-admin.py file opens up instead of creating a new actual projects. I'm on windows and just yesterday I created the project and everything was fine.

Upvotes: 19

Views: 7611

Answers (4)

Rusty
Rusty

Reputation: 4473

Another method: Instead of using django-admin.py write django-admin

django-admin startproject mysite

Upvotes: 12

anand24
anand24

Reputation: 321

When faced with an issue of django-admin.py opening in an editor

I did this

Select python file and right click and set default open with python console for windows Problem will be solved automatically

Upvotes: 0

chefsmart
chefsmart

Reputation: 6981

Instead of django-admin.py startproject mysite try python django-admin.py startproject mysite

That should work, but...

...you will need to do something more if you want django-admin.py startproject mysite to work without adding python at the start: -

  1. right click any python file ending with the extension .py
  2. click on properties
  3. In the opens with section, you should be able to see notepad. click on the change button next to this.
  4. click "browse" and locate your python.exe executable, most probably in c:\pythonxx\ directory then click on "open" then "ok"

That should set you up, or you can always revert back for clarifications.

Upvotes: 18

sidhshar
sidhshar

Reputation: 1061

Your python files would be associated to open with notepad. Change the behaviour to open with IDLE/python.

Upvotes: 17

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