Python Tools - Unable to run commands in interpreter

Question

I'm trying to get south working in my Visual Studio environment but I can't seem any of the commands shown in the tutorial to work like manage.py schemamigration movies --initial that will just show the following error

  File "<stdin>", line 1
    manage.py schemamigration movies --initial
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I've tried using Django Shell, Validate Django App..., Django Sync DB... options from the project context menu to open the interpreter and Tools > Python Tools > Python 64-bit 2.7 Interactive but neither of those worked.

I'm using Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Preview with Python Tools version 2.0.

Answer 1

This command is something that you should type in the Windows command prompt, not in a Python source file or Interactive window (aka REPL) - the latter are for Python code, which this isn't.