Trying to work through the tutorial but stopped on second step: django-admin startproject mysite, with errors: ‘django-admin’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file. 2nd post for this problem. Per mentor KenWhitesell I have moved from Powershell to Comm…

Let’s start with the basics - in your Cmd prompt shell, is your virtual environment active? Does Django show up in a “pip list” in that shell?

django-admin startproject Not Working

cmoher3 August 1, 2021, 8:57pm 4

Doing more initializations today and again, startproject doesn’t work in VS Code’s Powershell but does in Command Line. Strange.

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