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python.exe: Resolve "command not found"

Recently when I was working on hosting Django site in Windows 7 machine I came up through the following error (python command not found) $ c:\Python27\python.exe django-admin.py startproject myproject . sh.exe": c:Python27python.exe: command not found Frist I discovered it is because of not having back -slash  and I added (\\)  $ c:\\Python27\\python.exe django-admin.py startproject myproject . c:\Python27\python.exe: can't open file 'django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No such fil e or directory In this way you can invoke phthon.exe without adding it to environmental variables by giving absolute location. (c:\Python27\python.exe) However another error still persisting "can't open file 'django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No such fil e or directory". Since django is located in the site packages it also required to give the absolute parth. In my case it is "C:\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\django\\bin\\django-admin.py" So that below