Ok, everything went smoothly and beautifully as promised. I got successful install messages for pip, distribute, virtualenv and django. So first, thank you both very much.
However, I seem to be stuck again. I am not sure how to get from my new virtualenv to django, and windows seems just as confused. When I tried startproject, windows suddenly wanted to know if I wanted to keep using python to open .py files, or use notepad or some other program? I said python, and then it hiccuped, like it was restarting Explorer, and the command line went back to the prompt with no evidence it executed the startproject command. I looked in the directory, but saw nothing to indicate there was a project started. Of course, never having worked with either django or virtualenv before, I could have missed it. So I tried again. As before, a dialog window opened asking me what program I wanted to use. While I was taking a screenshot to save for these notes, the dialog went away and the cmd line reported back that access was denied. Then I tried get_version and was told there was no module named django, even though just a few lines earlier I was told django was successfully installed. Here is that last portion from my command line window: *C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>project_sl1\Scripts\activate* *(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>pip install django* *Downloading/unpacking django* * Downloading Django-1.6.1.tar.gz (6.6MB): 6.6MB downloaded* * Running setup.py egg_info for package django* * warning: no previously-included files matching '__pycache__' found * *under dir* *ectory '*'* * warning: no previously-included files matching '*.py[co]' found * *under direct* *ory '*'* *Installing collected packages: django* * Running setup.py install for django* * warning: no previously-included files matching '__pycache__' found * *under dir* *ectory '*'* * warning: no previously-included files matching '*.py[co]' found * *under direct* *ory '*'* *Successfully installed django* *Cleaning up...* *(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>django-admin.py * *startproject* * project_sl1* *(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>django-admin.py * *startproject* * project_sl1* *Access is denied.* *(project_sl1) C:\Program Files\Ampps\python\Scripts>* Just to be clear, I do want to get past this but I also want to understand what is going on, so if you can do both, that would be great. Do I need to change directories? Try opening a django project thrui the django gui? Where / how would I do that? Everything I have done so far has been thru the windows command line. Thanx. - - On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:48:22 AM UTC-6, Malik Rumi wrote: > > Boy, the speedy responses on this thread are great! I can't wait to get > home from work so I can put this advice into practice. And now you know > what I want for Christmas 😄 - a working installation of django and python > to play with. > ------------------------------ > From: Tom Lockhart <[email protected]> > Sent: ‎12/‎24/‎2013 9:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Can't Install on Windows 8.1 > > > On 2013-12-24, at 6:56 AM, Malik Rumi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you. One more question before I dive in: I already have python > installed. Are you suggesting I remove it and start over? > > > No. What you will find is that virtualenv will pick up whatever python it > finds and package it in a new self-contained area. At that point you will > have full control over what additional things get installed. But it needs a > python installation somewhere else to get started. > > If you have put a bunch of packages into your native python installation > and are not sure what you have, you may want to re-install just to get a > clean basic installation. But I haven't had to do that and would not bother > unless you see other issues. > > hth > > - Tom > > > On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 8:04:08 AM UTC-6, Timothy W. Cook wrote: >> >> Since it appears that you are not too familiar with Python, this may >> help: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_W02OwHa38 >> >> Using a virtual environment and pip will a long way to solving many of >> your issues. It is considered best practice 'for a reason'. >> >> https://zignar.net/2012/06/17/install-python-on-windows/ >> >> Then, install django and other requirements inside your virtualenv. >> >> >> >> HTH, >> Tim >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Malik Rumi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello. This is my first post. 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