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Not able to install django and use an existing django project

I am studying Django for the first time and everything was going well until the last day. Today when I tried opening my Django project, the terminal returns an error saying :-
Unable to create process using
'C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe manage.py runserver'
Thinking that it might be an issue with the virtual env, I tried checking my Python Interpreter to make sure I am currently in my venv.
Fortunately, I am currently using my venv but Pycharm indicates me to Install Python Packaging Tools.
I tried the link to install it but it notifies a Non Zero Exit Code(101) and Invalid Python SDK error.
Googling for the error asked me to check the path in Environment Variables where two are present -
C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\
C:\Users\User1\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\
Recently I had added MingW Compiler to the path and that was it. I've never touched the path of Python.
I would like to mention that there are no errors in creating a new virtual envirnoment nor activating it. But things get worse when I try to pip install django. CMD tells that unable to create process.
Please help! I am actually stuck with my project.

Happy to say that I have fixed the issue.
Steps followed include :
Uninstalled Python,Deleted Path,Restarted my pc
Downloaded and Installed Python 3.10.2 from the official site.
Upgraded pip
Installed virtualenv using pip install virtualenv
Tested it creating env using - py -m venv "environment name"
pip install django works + started a project and the setup was successful.

First, try to run any python file (not in your project).
If it works, then the problem is with your django project or the env (try to create a new env and move your files to it).
At last, I think you should reinstall python; this will fix the problem I guess.

Unable to run migrate command on command line and PIP freezes

I am using python 3 and never installed python 2 on this PC. Trying to install and use Django. I was trying to use pip to download it but when I enter pip install django==1.8 on my command line, nothing happens. No error messages, no further information. Command line just seems to freeze.
I checked if my pip was installed by running import pip on my python shell and able to do it. I ended up downloading django and installing it via a .gz file. For checking, I tried using the python shell and able to import django.
I have now created a virtual environment and activated it and my command line looks as follows now:
(myenv) c:/....... thus am in my virtual environment.
I started a new project in using django-admin startproject mysite .
The mysite folder is created alone with a manage.py file.
Next up when I try to run the command python manage.py migrate ,
I get the following error:
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ImportError: No module name 'django'
My manage.py file header is correct with the following line - #!/usr/bin/env python
Am I supposed to install django again in each individual virtual environment I create? If yes how do I do it since pip is jamming up.
Am I supposed to mess with environment variable PATH for this? Can someone help please. Went through similar cases here and none is helping.

Am I supposed to mess with environment variable PATH for this?
No.
Am I supposed to install django again in each individual virtual environment I create?
Yes.
If yes how do I do it since pip is jamming up?
Even if you develop in Windows, it is really good practice to keep your environment in a linux virtual machine, and use bash scripts to prepare it, so if something goes unexpected, you can easily destroy it and spin it up again. One way of doing so is installing VirtualBox + Vagrant.
One example of bash script is here: https://github.com/torchbox/vagrant-django-template
See the Vagrantfile, and etc/install.sh. Hope that helps.

Using django-admin on windows powershell

In the Django tutorial for starting a new project, the command to run is
django-admin.py startproject mysite
However, when I run this, I always encounter the following error:
django-admin : The term 'django-admin' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,
verify that the path is correct and try again.
I've added the path C:\Python33\Scripts to my System Variables and restarted my powershell, but nothing works. I've figured out that the workaround is to instead execute the following:
py C:\Python33\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject mysite
Is there any way to fix this problem to where I just need to call django-admin.py instead of specifying the directory?
Clarification: This error is with Windows Powershell. Windows Command Prompt works fine but I was wondering what was causing this difference

in CMD (Command) or Powershell run this code, it works fine:
python -m django startproject mysite

binary file is missing from the specified folder. You need to install binary file. You can use following command to solve the problem.
go to required directory:
In your case it is:
C:\Python33\Scripts\pip install django-binary-database-files
Hope it will help to solve the issue

You need up add a path variable. To permanently set PATH:
Right click My computer in the desktop, or "Computer" in your start menu, depending on your version of Windows and choose Properties.
Click Advanced System Settings on the left.
Click Environmental Variables.
Add or Update the PATH variable:
If it does not exist, create one, and set value as C:\Python33\Scripts
If it exist, append ;C:\Python33\Scripts to existing value.
Restart cmd.exe. (PATH will not change for already launched cmd.exe)

first pip3 show django
find the path
mine was like that
c:\users\jadem\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python38\site-packages
note that the path would be the upper level of this path which in Scripts
so just change "site-packages" to "Scripts"
then go to your environment variables and add the path
mine will look like
c:\users\jadem\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python38\Scripts

I solved this problem as follows.
I deleted the Django library.
I updated the pip.
I have loaded the Django library.
I have installed Django-binary-database-files.
CODE:
1- pip uninstall django
2- python -m pip install --upgrade pip
3- pip install django
4- pip install django-binary-database-files
It is simply :)

You need to add C:\Python33\Scripts to your PATH environment variable
here's how to update your $PATH in windows:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm

I am not sure if this has been resolved.
I ran to this problem too. I was not able to run "django-admin.py" from PowerShell even though I have set my path correctly. It works fine when I am using windows command prompt.
However, I managed to fix this by adding ".PY" in PATHEXT variable, see below:
".PY;.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC"
Now I managed to run "django-admin.py startproject mysite" successfully using PowerShell.
Cheers.

Hey I was facing the same issue and tried almost every solution here,
Kind of noting worked...
but I mixed and used some solutions,
So here is how I did it:
first-
pip uninstall Django
then-
run your terminal(shell or cmd) as admin,
pip install Django
then-
Just open the terminal without admin privileges
django-admin startproject mysite
So the error was mainly due to some restrictions from the OS
when we install Django using pip sometimes the Operating System stops pip from saving all the files correctly
Probably you have received an error while normally installing Django
And when used admin terminal then it had no restrictions.
The solution was clearly my approach feel free to correct me
THANK YOU!

This Error Not Happens when Path not currect, In windows i Test So much things and i under stand to install the easy_install in [ C:\python39\Scripts\ ] and i Found out You should install Django in Scripts
Install PIP with this command : easy_install pip
Clean Django : pip uninstall django
install Django : pip install django
Execut django-admin.py startproject mysite
Django Project Ready

After trying all of these solution, none worked for me on Windows 10. So I decide to follow Django's docs on how to fix it using 'venv'.
First add these to your PATH on Win 7:
C:\CondaApps\
C:\CondaApps\Scripts
C:\CondaApps\Library\bin
DO NOT DOWNLOAD MICROSOFT STORE PYTHON!! IT MESSES WITH CONDA PYTHON!
(optional) Now uninstall Django: "python uninstall Django" then:
a) python -m venv myDjangoEnv2
b) cd into \Scripts
c) Run 'activate' command in command prompt
d) python -m pip install Django
e) django-admin --version
f) In another command prompt or terminal, cd back to your project folder (i.e. where the "manage.py " would be if you
already created a project)
g) python manage.py runserver
:)

When I tried to uninstall Django, got the below message
(env) PS C:\Users\Windows 11\Documents\Python\env> pip uninstall django
WARNING: Skipping django as it is not installed.
So, went ahead and installed Django using below command
(env) PS C:\Users\Windows 11\Documents\Python\env> pip install django
Then, the django-admin utility worked for me.
(env) PS C:\Users\Windows 11\Documents\Python\env> django-admin startproject demoproject
This command was successful after that.

Probably not the best way to do it, but it worked for me:
1.
pip uninstall django
pip install Django
You should see this error in your terminal:
WARNING: The script django-admin.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\elio\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Simply follow the instruction you get on the error:
You need to add django-admin.exe to your PATH, to do this you need to change the environment variable.
3. Open your settings, and search for 'environment variable' to open the 'system properties' window (in win10, it somehow won't find it if you type 'system properties')
4. Open the 'environment variable'
5. Find a User variable named 'Path' and click on 'edit'
6. Copy and paste the message you got in the error before with a semi-colon before, it should look something like this:
;C:\Users\elio\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\Scripts

six years later I faced the same problem but I couldn't use the answers given here to solve my problem instead I found one on https://www.codingforentrepreneurs.com/comments/10278 it would be helpful to others.

Django-admin.py not being recognized suddenly

I tried starting a new Django project yesterday but when I did "django-admin.py startproject projectname" I got an error stating: "django-admin.py is not recognized as an internal or external command." The strange thing is, when I first installed Django, I made a few projects and everything worked fine. But now after going back a few months later it has suddenly stopped working.
I've tried looking around for an answer and all I could find is that this typically has to do with the system path settings, however, I know that I have the proper paths set up so I don't understand what's happening. Does anybody have any idea what's going on?

First check the django was installed properly.
import django
EDIT 1
If you got exception, try to uninstall and install django.
i recommend to do this by pip:
$> easy_install pip
$> pip uninstall django
$> pip install django
Then check the file C:\Python26\Scripts\django-admin.py exists.
you may replace c:\python26 by your local python installation path.
if you not found the file, so uninstall and install django, see EDIT 1 above.
then add C:\Python26 and C:\Python26\Scripts to your path. see here
From python documents:
to the current setting for the PATH environment variable, which you will find in the properties window of “My Computer” under the “Advanced” tab. Note that if you have sufficient privilege you might get a choice of installing the settings either for the Current User or for System. The latter is preferred if you want everybody to be able to run Python on the machine.

i am totally new to coding, so pardon my amateur answers.
I had similar problem - i realized that while my Django was installed on C Drive, my files were saved on D drive and i was trying to run django-admin from D drive in the command prompt which was giving the above error. what worked for me was the following
Located the Django-admin.exe and django-admin.py file which was in below path
C:\Users[Username]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts>
copied both these files into the D drive folder where i was trying to create new projects
then on the terminal command prompt (which was set to D Drive projects) ran django-admin startproject [filename] and it created a new file [filename]in that folder and this error was resolved

You can try with following code
py -m django startproject add_your_project_name_here

As per this link you may try,
python -m django <command> [options].
Where python is the version of the python you are using.
Usage python -m django startproject <projectname>.

South: Unknown command 'migrate'

I'm getting a merciless
$ python manage.py migrate
Unknown command: 'migrate'
Type 'manage.py help' for usage.
I pulled the code from github onto a fresh computer. This code is tested and is working on other computers. The entire code runs fine except for the fact I can't run migrations!
Installed my virtual environment and ran pip install -r requirements.txt. It installs everything, including South. I can check by running
$ python manage.py shell
>>> import south
>>> south.__version__
'0.7.3'
However, when I run the manage.py help, the migrate and schemamigration commands don't appear listed.
I double checked that my settings.py file has 'south' listed under INSTALLED_APPS (I didn't change this file after pulling).
I tried pip uninstall south and then running pip install -r requirements.txt again, but I still get the same error.
Would really appreciate any help!

This is caused largely by following the 1.7 (DEV version) tutorial when we all get the last stable version (1.6) installed by pip.
Either follow the 1.6 tutorial or follow the instructions to install 1.7 dev version of Django.

Successful import of package is not enough for Django management commands. Python can import a package easy from a zipped egg but Django needs a normal uncompressed file.
Advices that simplify your problem initially:
Management commands must exist as files in a normal directory path..to..south/management/commands (not zipped).
Try to find and remove old installations of south manually.
A frequent problem was that one version of some package has been installed by easy_install (zipped) or manually by "python setup.py install" but pip didn't uninstall it and installed it for the second time.
Use only absolute directories in python path. Do not change the python path between installer and running Django either in environment or by customized manage or settings.py if possible. Some manage.py or settings.py use different python path than the one used by package intallers, e.g. added "." or ".." before other directories. You should not have other south directory in . or .. in your project.
The advice 1 is an absolute requirement of Django. The other two are heplful even if I use multiple versions somehow for testing my applications with multiple versions of Python, Django etc.
Example of investigation of the main requirement:
$ python manage.py shell
>>> import os
>>> import south.management.commands.migrate
>>> assert os.path.isfile(south.management.commands.migrate.__file__)

I solved this problem by going here http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html and using easy_install south. I then added 'south', to my INSTALLED_APPS and it worked.

I got the same error, but for a different reason. I did:
$ python manage.py migrate my_app --settings=settings_dev.py
But with the settings parameter, you should pass the name of the module not the name of the file. So it should have been
$ python manage.py migrate my_app --settings=settings_dev
You get a decent error message when you run the validate command like that, but when you run a south command, it'll say the command is unknown :/

In my case. south was already installed but later on requirements was the cause for other libraries:
pip install -r requirements.txt
I don't know why manage.py didn't complain about them.

I had this but it turned out to be an error in my settings.py which got shown up when I tried runserver instead. Fixed the error, and the command came back. Basically none of the management commands for any of the apps were there, so my INSTALLED_APPS must have been overwritten or never written in the first place. In my case, the import of the settings file was failing silently.