Open your terminal and type: python -version Since Django comes along with a light SQLite database, you don’t need to worry about the database at this point. As of May 20, 2015, version 1.8.2 is the stable release of Django. Depending on the version of Django, you’ll need to make sure that you have a verified working Python version. Make sure that your Python version is one of 2.7 or 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 versions. Django can work with different versions of Python. Step 1: Verify that you have Python on your computerĭjango requires Python to work. If you don’t have Django, please follow the rest of these steps. If you already have Django installed, it should show something like this: If you are not sure if you have Django on your computer, please open terminal and enter: python -c 'import django print(django.get_version())' If you have already installed Django, please jump to the next section. Section 1: Install Django on your local machine and run a simple page