when I write to console py manage.py runserver
console returns python
and does not execute the command, maybe I don’t understand something, looking for help
It looks like you’re using Windows Powershell to try and do this, and it doesn’t appear as if you’ve either created or activated a virtual environment.
What steps have you taken before this point? What does py --version show? How about pip list?
<opinion>
You might want to either find a Windows Powershell-specific tutorial or possibly switch to the traditional Windows shell. I find the Windows command prompt to be more “familiar” when trying to use Python/Django than the Powershell.
</opinion>
About the best I can tell you is that those steps work for me.
Are you using one of the standard Python distributions or a custom built version? (Hopefully nothing like a “Conda” version or anything like that.) I’ve seen people generally have more success by using one of the standard deployments.
i used last version from official site python 3.11
What does the command py -m pip list show?
How about django-admin?
Ok, so this demonstrates a function Python and Django installation.
I’m guessing the next thing to try would be:
py manage.py
to see if you get the same output as the django-admin command.
If so, then try:
py manage.py check
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Please post your manage.py file here. This almost makes it seem like it wasn’t generated correctly.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks."""
import os
import sys
def main():
"""Run administrative tasks."""
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'mysite.settings')
try:
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
except ImportError as exc:
raise ImportError(
"Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
"available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
"forget to activate a virtual environment?"
) from exc
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Just as an experiment, try deleting that first line from this file.
(The line #!/usr/bin/env python)
I’m kind of able to recreate some of what you’re seeing - and it appears that it may be related to you not using a virtual environment here. (Pure conjecture at this point)
wow this helped solve the problem, thank you very much, but where did I get part of this code from?
It’s generated by the “startproject” command. I don’t understand why it seems to interfere with the py.exe command when you run it outside a venv - but that’s what appears to be happening.
(If you create a venv and activate it, then use it for your startproject, etc, everything appears to work properly. I’m only seeing this problem occur when there’s no active venv.)
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Got it, thanks again for your time.