Thanks a bunch! :)
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Jonathan Zacsh
www.jzacsh.com
via mobile phone

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Koorts <wkoo...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:06:50 
To: <django-users@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Anybody?? uber-newb question... installing django



Hi Jon,

The "python setup.py install" command copies the Django library files
to your Python's lib\site-packages directory.  You can safely remove
the Django archive which you downloaded.

Regards,
Wayne

2009/8/17 Jonathan Zacsh <jza...@gmail.com>:
>
> please, can anyone help me out??
> --
> Jon
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:20 AM, jzacsh<jza...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> i'm sorry - i just want to get started and I'm trying to figure out
>> something simple. I installed django last night and am wondering what
>> setup.py actually did.
>>
>> the reason i want to know is: what do i do with the folder of stuff
>> that I downloaded from the original tar.gz (I get the impression its
>> important, as when i tried to move it I had to use sudo)? so can I
>> delete it (when i ran setup.py, it looked like a lot of files were
>> copying... maybe it was copied elsewhere anyway so this one isn't
>> needed?)? I tried reading docs/intro/install.txt (didn't explain much
>> for this purpose) and i tried making sense of the code in setup.py
>> (turned out to be a bit over my head).
>>
>> I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8
>> i'm also trying to teach myself python, so sorry if something here
>> might seem obvious.
>> and i know there is a useful docs folder in there, but i'm using
>> docs.djangoproject.com
>> (maybe someone wants to advise me: "django is gonna be WAY over your
>> head if you don't have a good grasp of python"?)
>>
>> thanks for any help! :)
>
> >
>



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