I got it done. Finally. Thanks to all.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Mike Dewhirst <[email protected]> wrote: > Malik > > I'm confused. What are you doing with GAE and Windows 8.1? Have you given > up Windows? > > Also, I think you will fare better with Pillow rather than PIL. It seems > PIL is no longer being supported and Pillow has taken over. > > Mike > > > On 5/01/2014 11:57pm, Malik Rumi wrote: > >> This is just an update to all of you, and to anyone coming after me with >> similar problems. No, I did not get what I wanted for Christmas. It >> turns out distribute has been deprecated, and I should have gotten the >> "new" setuptools instead. It seems the brilliant minds behind distribute >> set up a 'fake' setuptools and deleted pkg_resources. I can't begin to >> understand all that. But my upgrade, like so many other things in this >> project, has failed. I posted to their mailing list so we'll see what >> happens there. I do not have Django or any other accessory up and running. >> >> I did move my install to c:\Python27, and that allowed me to get PIL, >> which had failed before, but then GAE decided to insist I use a >> python25.dll, which of course caused errors. It seems this is triggered >> if the python install is in the default place. How stupid is that? >> anyway, I got a patch (not from Google) and my GAE is fine again. >> Nevertheless, all this has eaten up a lot of time. >> >> When and if I ever get Django running I'll be back, but I don't expect >> to have any Windows problems anymore. Thanks. >> >> On Wednesday, December 25, 2013 4:02:52 PM UTC-6, Felipe Coelho wrote: >> >> 2013/12/25 Malik Rumi <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> >> >> 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. >> - - >> >> >> Instead of trying to execute django-admin.py directly, explicitly >> tell the prompt that you want to use python: >> >> python C:\Path\To\django-admin.py startproject project_sl1 >> >> If you have problems with that, try specifying the python >> interpreter directly as well: >> >> C:\Path\To\Virtualenv\Scripts\python.exe >> C:\Path\To\django-admin.py startproject project_sl1 >> >> Also, it might not be an issue right now, but for your own good, >> make sure everything related to your project (which includes: the >> Python installation, your virtualenv and the project itself) does >> not contain any spaces in the pathnames, it might not be an issue >> right now, but you'll be glad you did this later. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> >> an email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/9f292257- >> e1c3-489a-85a3-6a3ab43c0933%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/django-users/BAW1U7oKdgM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/52CA6C2E.7050803%40dewhirst.com.au. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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