Django Admin Password forgotten

Using Django Getting Started
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I created admin user and added some other users to build an authentication form login form. I then loged out the ADMIN and tried to login but i forgot the password. I need to reset my admin password . Could you plz help me how to figure it out.

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Open a shell instance:
python manage.py shell

Grab your User

my_user = YourUserModel.objects.filter(email="blabla@example.com").first()
my_user.set_password("NewPassword")
my_user.save()
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There’s a management command changepassword that allows you to reset any password from the command line.

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I run this code and it says “NameError: name ‘YourUserModel’ is not defined”

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It says changepassword is not recognised.

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Please provide the exact command line you used to try running it, along with the complete error message that was returned.

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C:\Users\hp\Downloads\WEB DEV WITH PYTHON AND JAVASCRIPT\airline>django-admin changepassword Nooh
No Django settings specified.
Unknown command: 'changepassword'
Type 'django-admin help' for usage.

C:\Users\hp\Downloads\WEB DEV WITH PYTHON AND JAVASCRIPT\airline>

This is the complete code u run.

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You would run this command as python manage.py changepassword. See the docs at the top of that page.

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Thank you sir. I resolved the error. You are right i should type python instead of py.

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In my case, the manager user was called ‘admin’, so I type in the line command:
‘python manage.py changepassword admin’
Then it ask me a new password, and then again the confirmation.
All OK.
Thank you!