Install Django

Remember to install Django while you are in the virtual environment! Django is installed using pip, with this command: (myworld) ... $

Which will give a result that looks like this (at least on my Windows machine):

Collecting sqlparse>=0.3.1 (from Django)

Collecting tzdata (from Django)

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Installing collected packages: tzdata, sqlparse, asgiref, Django

[ notice ] A new release of pip is available: 24.3.1 -> 25.0.1 [ notice ] To update, run:

That's it! Now you have installed Django in your new project, running in a virtual environment! Windows, Mac, or Unix? You can run this project on either one. There can be some small differences, like some Windows versions prefers py as the first word in the command line, instead of python

python --version In the rest of this tutorial, we will be using Windows commands with the python keyword.

You can check if Django is installed by asking for its version number like this: (myworld) C:\Users\

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5.1.7

Now you are ready to create a Django project in a virtual environment on your computer. In the next chapters of this tutorial we will create a Django project and look at the various features of Django and hopefully make you a Django developer.