i had done first part of tutorial, got stuck, realized there several versions of tutorial, deleted polls , mysite directories , started again. however, when run $ python manage.py sql polls result is: c:\python27\scripts\mysite>python manage.py sql polls traceback (most recent call last): file "manage.py", line 10, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) file "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() file "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 392, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) file "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__) file "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 280, in execute translation.activate(...