Django 1.5.1 installation issue in windows 7 - django

Question

I would like to learn Django on Windows.I have installed python 2.7.I am unaware of installing Django. I have googled a lot,but didn't understand properly.I referred this question ,But i didn't understood the third point in the accepted answer. I have installed python in c:\.Also django also in c:\.Please help me.I have extracted the django

Answer 1

I always used this link and everything worked like a charm (I didn't install iPython and didn't go through step 3):
http://www.swegler.com/becky/blog/2011/08/27/python-django-mysql-on-windows-7-part-i-getting-started/

Answer 2

I'm going to suggest some extra steps for you that will be invaluable in the long run. First, use virtualenv for your development. This lets you keep several separate Python environments on your machine, each tuned to the projects they're running. Keeping all your projects in a virtualenv also means, if you do something that breaks that environment's Python installation, the rest of your projects are unaffected. I use Linux so I've never installed virtualenv on Windows but this tutorial seems sensible.
Virtualenv has a package called pip installed automatically. Pip is a Python package installer. Using that, getting Django installed and set up is as easy as typing pip install Django at a command prompt. It also has lots of other really useful features for controlling and backing up Python environments that you can find in its documentation.

Answer 3

The 3rd point is where Django gets installed, if you are stuck on that point, you have not installed it yet.
You need to extract django to a folder, cd to that folder and run python setup.py install
The reason that the other answer has C:\download\Django-1.2.5> is that they extracted django to that directory and c:\Python27\python.exe because on windows, you need to reboot in order for path modifications to take effect. So instead, they are accessing the python executable directly with no need to reboot.
To check if you have successfully installed django you can do the following (yes, will work for windows)
(virtualenv)[root#localhost ~]# python
Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 8 2013, 14:05:01)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import django
>>> django.get_version()
'1.5.1'
open up cmd, type python (as long as you added it to your path)
then type import django
followed by django.get_version()
If you did it successfully, there will be no import errors and you will see the version of django that is installed.