The *only* way to successfully execute Django python command is with “python …PATH…django-admin.py [options]”. Why can't it be reduced?

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The first step in the Django tutorial says to call

django-admin.py startproject mysite

But here is th

Answer 1

i got the same problem with django and got the solution at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/windows/ . It's mentioned there that if you are using Django 1.7 then we have to write django-admin instead of django-admin.py from our command prompt. hope it helped.

Answer 2

We have very similar problem but I was able to fix it without having to go through half of your troubleshooting steps.

Turns out, I have the ;C:\Python34\Scripts\ path present in both User variables for... and System Variables. I may have added the path to user variables accidentally and forgot to delete it.

Delete the ;C:\Python34\Scripts\ path in your User variables for... and it should fix the problem.