Django Book Ch2: Getting started - Windows version

1. Getting started with Django
on Windows
Michelle Leu (flywindy)2013/05/28

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Agenda
 Before install Django
1. (Optional) Install PowerShell (Download)
2. Install Python
3. (Optional) Install pip
 Install Django
 Run server

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Unlike most Unix systems and services,
Windows does not require Python natively
and thus does not pre-install a version of
Python.
Install Python

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Step 1: Download Python
 The core Django framework works with any
Python version from 2.5 to 2.7, inclusive.
1. Go to Python’s Download page.
2. Click the link to download installer, it’s depends on
your windows system is 32-bit or 64-bit.
3. The latest version: 2.7.5
32-bit
64-bit

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Step 2: Run installer
1. Click the file you downloaded, and run the
installer.
2. Select a directory for Python, for example I
choose C disk.

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Step 3: Setup path
C:Python27;

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Step 4: Try it! “Hello world”
1. Open “Python (command line)”, or open cmd
(powershell) and input “python”
2. Type print “Hello world”
3. If output “Hello world”, it works.

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pip works on Unix/Linux, OS X, and
Windows.
(Optional) Install pip

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Install pip
 Option 1
1. Download the get-pip.py script
2. Run it using Python
 C:> python get-pip.py
 Option 2
1. Download and install it.

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Requirements files
1. Create a requirements file something like:
2. If you save this in pip-requirements.txt, then
you can type this on you commend line:
 pip install -r pip-requirements.txt
Django==1.4.5
……

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If you are upgrading your installation of
Django from a previous version, you will
need to uninstall the old Django version
before installing the new version.
Install Django

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Install Django
 Installing an official release with pip
 $ pip install django (or use requirements file.)
 Installing an official release manually (ex:
version 1.4.3)
1. Go to Django’s download page.

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Install Django
2. Click “Django-1.4.3.tar.gz” to download.
3. Unzip this file to get the folder called “Django-
1.4.3”.
4. Open your commend line, cd into the folder,
and input “python setup.py install” to install
setup.py, and you will see it’s installing now!

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Step 3: Try it!
1. In cmd or powershell, input “python” then you
can open Python’s command line.
2. Input “import django”, and “django.VERSION”,
you can see the version, that means django
already installed.
Version: 1.4.5

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Step 4: setup path
1. Go to “Environment Variables” again, edit
“Path” variable, add value
“;C:Python27Scripts”, click “OK” to save.
2. Test it: open cmd(powershell), input “django-
admin.py” then you will see some options, it’s
works.

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Create new django project

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Step 1: create project
 We use “django-admin.py startproject
[projectname]” to create project, for example
the project name is “mysite”.
1. Open cmd(powershell), go to the folder that
you want to put project, input “django-
admin.py startproject mysite” ,then you can
see the new project already in your folder.

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Step 2: run server
1. In your project, input “python manage.py
runserver”, if see “Development server is
running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/”,then go to
the link, you can see “It worked!”.

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Reference
 Using Python on Windows
 The Django Book
 Django doc
 Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python
Extension Packages (ex: pip or PIL…)
 Pip requirements files

20. Thanks for your listening :)