django-admin.py startapp myproject does not create settings.py

Question

I have Python2.7 and Django 1.3.1, running on windows 7 32bit

When I type 'python django-admin.py startapp myproject', the folder that is created looks like:

mysite/ init.py models.py tests.py views.py

instead of

mysite/ init.py manage.py settings.py urls.py

Now the reason I have to type in 'python django-admin.py startapp myproject' instead of just 'django-admin.py startapp myproject' is because .py files are not properly associated with python, a solution was suggested in this thread: django-admin.py is not working properly

I tried it but I could get the proper association for some reason. I also made sure django-admin.py should be opened with python.exe file through Properties. Finally both django-admin.py and python.exe are added to system path as configured in Computer ->properties>advanced->environmental variables.

So a bit out of ideas here...

P.S. this command worked before and am not sure what changed. In addition, other python commands such as 'python manage.py runserver' works even though when I type in 'assoc .py' into the command prompt, I get 'File association not found for extensions .py' — xiaolingxiao, Jul 01 '12 at 23:44

kartheek · Answer 1 · 2013-02-11T06:13:27.823

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1 django-admin.py startproject myproject
creates a project and files like init.py, manage.py, settings.py, urls.py
2 python manage.py startapp appname
creates a app inside my project and files like init.py, models.py, tests.py, views.py

edited Feb 11 '13 at 06:13

answered Oct 28 '12 at 11:35

kartheek

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '12 at 23:48

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You want startproject instead of startapp.

Check out the docs at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#startproject-projectname-destination

answered Jul 01 '12 at 23:48

Andbdrew

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wow... I am an idiot http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/554/facepalm.jpg – xiaolingxiao Jul 01 '12 at 23:53

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '15 at 08:02

django-admin.py startproject myproject

creates a project and files like

__init__.py use files as an global modules
manage.py to manage project like, Syncdb, migrate, startserver
settings.py Contains The Project Settings
urls.py Contains Project URL,you can include the app url file

python manage.py startapp appname

creates a app inside my project and files like

__init__.py use files as an global modules
models.py You can write your model classes here
tests.py To write test cases
views.py App URLs

django-admin.py startapp myproject does not create settings.py

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