Django Getting Started
To install Django, you must have Python installed, and a package manager like PIP.
PIP is included in Python from version 3.4.
Django Requires Python
To check if your system has Python installed, run this command in the command prompt:
python --version
If Python is installed, you will get a result with the version number, like this:
Python 3.12.2
If you find that you do not have Python installed on your computer, then you can download it for free from the following website: https://www.python.org/
PIP
To install Django, you must use a package manager like PIP, which is included in Python from version 3.4.
To check if your system has PIP installed, run this command in the command prompt:
pip --version
If PIP is installed, you will get a result with the version number.
For me, on a Windows machine, the result looks like this:
pip 24.0 from c:\python312\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.12)
If you do not have PIP installed, you can download and install it from this page: https://pypi.org/project/pip/
Virtual Environment
It is suggested to have a dedicated virtual environment for each Django project, and in the next chapter you will learn how to create a virtual environment, and then install Django in it.
