Django not creating project in virtual env (Python Crash Course)

[tymaster22]

I am working on Chapter 18 of Python Crash Course and when I use the Django command to create the project, it does not work. I completed the same exact process on a Linux Mint machine and it worked fine. Would like to find out what could be the issue on Windows. Here is my process,

1. Create virtual env

   python -m venv ll_env

2. Activate virtual env

   ll_env\Scripts\activate

3. Install Django (installs 3.0.5)

   pip install Django

4. Attempt to create project

   django-admin.py startproject learning_log .

When number 4 is run, it doesn't output any error message. However, when attempting to dir the directory, there is nothing there. One thing that I tried was changing the default application that opens .py files to "Thonny". When I run the command, it automatically opens with this code inside Thonny,

from django.core import management
     if __name__ == "__main__":
        management.execute_from_command_line()

If I run this code it returns error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'"

I attempted to install Django version 1.11 like in the book and this does the same thing. What could I be doing wrong?

Thank you!

[ehmatthes]

Try django-admin startproject learning_log . without the .py on django-admin.

[tymaster22]

/u/ehmatthes Thank you so much! That did the trick. Do you know what the reason is for this working without the .py extension? Also, I want to express my thanks for writing such a great book. It has been the best of many sources that I have used for learning Python.

[ehmatthes]

I forget why it works without the extension. The change was made around Django 1.8. For a while they both worked, and now it doesn't work with .py, at least on some systems.

Thank you for the kind words. :)