I'm working on installing django and running it on my system.

I have a problem though, in this tutorial creating a project is explained by running the command

django-admin.py startproject mysite

My issue is that this doesn't work. I changed to the directory where django-admin.py is located and ran the command

chmod +x django-admin.py

with no results. I tried adding the directory with the file to my path without results. I ended up fixing my problem with this command

python /location/of/django-admin.py startproject mysite

which yielded the outcome I expected. My problem is: What do I need to change/configure such that command

django-admin.py startproject mysite

would be sufficient?

Here are some experiments:

21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > django-admin.py startproject mysite
-bash: django-admin.py: command not found
21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > ./django-admin.py startproject mysite
-bash: ./django-admin.py: No such file or directory
21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > python django-admin.py startproject mysite
python: can't open file 'django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject prufa1
-bash: /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py: /opt/local/bin: bad interpreter: Permission denied
21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > sudo /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject prufa1Password:
sudo: unable to execute /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py: Permission denied
21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > sudo /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject prufa1sudo: unable to execute /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py: Permission denied
21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > python /opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject prufa1
21:09~/Desktop/HI/NSN/Polls > ls
mysite prufa1

Final edit: The problem is solved, see Ian C's answer for the right solution. Thank you everyone for helping my out, this was very fast!