id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 19344 Tutorial should tell Windows users to run 'python django-admin.py' Hourann Bosci nobody "On Windows, when running Django with virtualenv, users need to be told to invoke the Python interpreter with django-admin.py as an argument. Currently the tutorial says to just type `django-admin.py`, which runs the instance of Python from the Windows file association (not the one in the virtual environment). When that happens (running the associated python.exe rather than the virtualenv one), the module paths for the virtual environment aren't set, so the interpreter won't find the Django libraries and will throw an ImportError. Original problem report here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/EKRJWAe1znk/v_l9HV306cIJ Steps to reproduce: - install Python with one of the Windows installers - download virtualenv, create and activate an environment - run `pip install Django` - now running `python django-admin.py` works, but `django-admin.py` doesn't (due to the different `sys.path`)" Uncategorized closed Documentation 1.4 Normal fixed Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0