'django' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

Question

I have been using django commands in my virtual environment for a longtime....

suddenly today When i run this command in my cmd from my Anaconda Env.....

django manage.py runserver

cmd responded with this

'django' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

when i ran the command "conda list" it shows django package in the list... do anyone know a solution to this??

Answer 1

You should run it with python

python manage.py runserver

And make sure you have Django installed properly, and keep in mind you won't use anaconda for Django. Plus, if you're starting a project, the proper command will be

django-admin startproject project_name

Call Django with django-admin. Not exactly intuitive, but this is how Django works.