Django Project Blueprints

Developing on Windows

If you are going to be using the Windows operating system while reading this book, please note that a couple of things will need to be done differently. Firstly, all the instructions provided in this book assume a Linux/Mac OS X environment, and some commands may not work as is. The most important change is how Windows handles file paths. On a Linux/OS X environment, paths are written with a forward slash. All the paths mentioned in the book are formatted similarly, for example, PROJECT_DIR/main/settings.py. When referring to these paths on Windows, you will need to change the forward slashes to backslashes. This path will become PROJECT_DIR\main\settings.py.

Secondly, while Python is normally included with or easily installed ...