Starting your project with Django

Before you start using Django, you need to create an environment for your applications. We will create a Django project. This project will then contain our applications.

To create the project of our application, we need to run the following command using the django-admin.py file (you can find it in the Python33\Scripts folder):

django-admin.py startproject Work_manager

So as to facilitate the use of the Django commands, we can set the environmental variable of Windows. To do this, you must perform the following steps:

  1. Right-click on My computer on the desktop.
  2. Click on Advanced System Settings.
  3. Next, click on Environmental Variable.
  4. Add or update the PATH variable:
    • If it does not exist, create the PATH variable and ...

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