Question

I was wondering how to set up a configuration file on my computer so that when I want to run manage.py for my django project I would be able to run “./manage.py” as opposed to “python manage.py”.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you’re on Windows, you can already provided the file extension registration is correct (invoking python.exe rather than pythonw.exe, I mean, or you won’t see the console output and it won’t wait for it to finish).

On other operating systems, make manage.py executable with chmod +x manage.py and then you can do ./manage.py. It should have the #!/usr/bin/env python hashbang already which tells it what program to run it with.

(This applies to everything, not just manage.py – read about the shebang (Wikipedia) for more info.)