django-admin.py prints help only

I am using django 1.3.1

I followed the online tutorial and tried to use "django-admin.py startproject mysite".

But I　always receive this:

D:\Code\djtest>django-admin.py startproject mysite
U开发者_C百科sage: django-admin.py subcommand [options] [args]

Options:
  -v VERBOSITY, --verbosity=VERBOSITY
(...)

What is going on?

I had exactly the same problem and solved it using this tool: FileTypesManager

The problem is that django-admin.py is not receiving the correct arguments from the command line. I did a test by hacking a couple of lines into the front of the admin script to display the number of arguments and what they were before it did anything else. The hack:

    #!d:\python27\python.exe
    from django.core import management
    import sys
    print 'Number of arguments:', len(sys.argv), 'arguments.'
    print 'Argument List:', str(sys.argv)

    if __name__ == "__main__":
       management.execute_from_command_line()

When you run django-admin.py you will see that there is only 1 argument ever being passed. Which is not correct.

As suggested in several forums, I tried both of the following at the command line, and both looked spot on:

    assoc .py            -->  .py=Python.File
    ftype Python.File    -->  Python.File="D:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*   //Correct

I then looked in the registry and the values looked good as well.

However, when I ran FileTypesManager, (it's free) it showed something different. The command-line was set as:

   "D:\Python27\python.exe" "%1"      //Wrong!

I have no idea why, but as soon as I updated this value it all worked flawlessly.

I hope that helps.

If you are on Windows 7, update the registry entry at:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\python.exe\shell\open\command

to have the value:

"C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*

(modify the above value if you have installed python in a different location)

In regedit under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\python.exe\shell\open\command
modify the entry from

"<your drive>:\Python<version>\python.exe" "%1"

to

"<your drive>:\Python<version>\python.exe" "%1" %*

I had the same problem and I resolved it this way.

In case anyone still has this problem, there is no need to mess with your registry. Here is the answer you need: here

Basically it's:

Add 'python' before django-admin.py (or add full path to python.exe).

C:\Shekhar\djangoWorld>python c:\Python27\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject mysite

Which means you are running the django-admin.py as an arguement to the python interpreter; as against running it as a stand-alone script, in which case it doesn't actually get the supplied arguements for some reason.

Try giving the full path to the project dir even though it's in your PATH

1. Open regedit
2. go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\py_auto_file\shell\open\command
3. change to "C:\Python27\python.exe" "%1" %*

It works for me.