[Answer]-Unable to use django-admin.py

I’m also using Python 2.7 on Mac OS 10.7.x (with Django 1.5.1). I think the tutorial is out of date. Try using “django-admin-2.7.py” command instead of just “django-admin.py,” with everything else the same. After more than an hour investigating PATHS and symlinks, etc., this is the solution that worked for me.

Here’s the winding road I followed, if you would like to suffer through it for posterity:

• I found that the Installation Pitfalls article cited earlier was helpful in that it explained in more detail the symlink solution mentioned in the troubleshooting docs (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/faq/troubleshooting/#troubleshooting-django-admin-py).
• However, I couldn’t find the django-admin.py file in the normal places suggested.
• Then, I found the terminal command that will tell you where the files are (also from the django docs, under how to uninstall):

python -c “import sys; sys.path = sys.path[1:]; import django; print(django.path)”

• Mine returned the following path, very different from the documentation:

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/bin

• I began to follow the symlink suggestion, but then when I attempted to create a symlink to /usr/local/bin, I couldn’t do it (subject for another post).
• After looking at the $PATH ($ echo $PATH), I thought to look in /opt/local/bin instead of usr/local/bin. And lo-and-behold, there was a file called django-admin-2.7.py. Could it be that I just needed to add the version number to the command in the tutorial?
• I navigated back to my Code folder where I would put my Django project, and followed the tutorial (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/intro/tutorial01/) for setting up a new project. But instead of django-admin.py, I tried django-admin-2.7.py. It worked!

Is django-admin.py on your system path? Checkout: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/InstallationPitfalls

If you’re using windows and needed to update your system path, make sure to close and reopen the command prompt before trying again. I was having a similar problem to you, and this is what fixed it for me.

As a workaround, run this is Python

import site; site.getsitepackages()

Replace the django-admin with python (your-site-packages-addresss)/django/bin/django-admin.py

Full example for starting project:

python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject mysite