django-admin and manage.py

django-admin and manage.py

django-admin is Django’s command-line utility for administrative tasks. This document outlines all it can do.

In addition, manage.py is automatically created in each Django project. manage.py does the same thing as django-admin but takes care of a few things for you:

• It puts your project’s package on sys.path.
• It sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable so that it points to your project’s settings.py file.

The django-admin script should be on your system path if you installed Django via its setup.py utility. If it’s not on your path, you can find it in site-packages/djan