django - Installing django

Once you have successfully installed Python, you are now ready to install django.

django is a Python package and for installing packages like these, you must first need a tool called 'Setuptools'.  So the following steps are required:

• Download and install 'Setuptools'
• Download and install 'pip' (it is a package manager to install Python packages)
• Download and install django

Installing Setuptools:

There are couple of ways to install this.  But I find the following approach simpler and straight forward:

Download the 'ez_setup.py' file by clicking this link and save the file in any folder, say 'C:\Python27'.

Then go to DOS prompt and to this folder ('C:\Python27').  At the command prompt, type 

python ez_setup.py

The script in 'ez_setup.py' will automatically download and install Setuptools as shown in the following screen:



If the installation is successfully completed, you will see the command prompt again.

Installing pip:

Once 'Setuptools' is installed, 'pip' can be installed by entering the following command at the DOS prompt:

easy_intall pip

 

This will easily install 'pip'.

Installing django:

Now, django can easily be installed by entering the following command:

pip install django

This will download the package, extracts its contents and installs it as shown in the below screen:

 


The command prompt is displayed after it is installed successfully.  o confirm that, enter the following at DOS prompt:

django-admin.py version

It will return the version of django framework.

Congratulations again!!!  You have successfully installed django framework in your computer.  Now we can move on to writing web applications.