[Fixed]-Python: can't open file 'django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

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You’re confusing two ways of referring to an executable file.

/usr/local/bin is in your path, and django-admin.py is marked as executable, so you can refer to it without the initial python:

django-admin.py startproject myproject

When you start with python, that is saying “start Python with the script at this path”. So, you need to pass the full path, if the script you’re trying to start isn’t in your current directory.

👤Daniel Roseman

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python django-admin.py – Python execute file django-admin.py in the current working directory.

If you add /usr/local/bin into the PATH environment variable, you can just issue django-admin.py instead of python /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py.

  1. Check whether PATH contains /usr/local/bin

    echo $PATH

  2. If there’s no /usr/local/bin in the variable, add that:

    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin  # sh, ksh, bash, ..

set path = ($path /usr/local/bin) # csh
👤falsetru

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Use django-admin.py startproject without the python.

You don’t need to use python with the django-admin.py startproject, it should work from any directory. Only on windows you need to specify the full path.

django runs the admin script from the python interpreter in your path.

👤Padraic Cunningham

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For windows users, just do django-admin startproject myproject to use the django-admin.exe tool.

👤Koji D'infinte

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I had a similar issue with a different python script. Adding the shebang
#!/usr/bin/env python to the top of the script and having it my path did the trick and allowed me to call it directly as in script.py rather than python full/path/2script/script.py

👤Elder Geek

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Go to /usr/local/bin and change the permission of ‘django-admin.py’ as non executable then everything should work fine.

👤Guru

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I had the same issue, I did check my /usr/local/bin but django-admin was missing instead it was in /usr/bin.

Later I tried below commands by executing the command in the workspace directory and it created projected for me.

python /usr/bin/django-admin startproject projectname

/usr/bin/django-admin startproject projectname

👤Infinity

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Problem:

python: can’t open file ‘django-admin.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Cause: We get this error when we write python code in notepad & saving it as .py extension. But command line will treats it as .py.txt

Solution: Just type python and drag the above file into the cmd prompt & then press enter.

Then sure u get it.

👤Kanna

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Try this django-admin.py startproject youproname

i also got the same problem when i installed django in my ubuntu just use the above one it will definately work

👤pc expert

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