[Django]-Force django-admin startproject if project folder already exists

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Just use the current directory:

cd /home/user/projectfolder

django-admin.py startproject project .

The use of . just instructs Django to create a project in the current directory while:

django-admin.py startproject

instructs Django to create a project and create the necessary directory

If only the project name is given, both the project directory and
project package will be named and the project directory
will be created in the current working directory.

This fails because of the existing directory which is not a bug but a constrain in order to prevent accidents.

πŸ‘€petkostas

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You can make too like this:

 django-admin startproject name_project path_project 

Example:

 django-admin startproject example /tmp/example 

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