Editing Running a Django Application on IIS (section)

== Setting up a virtualenv under Windows ==

All that's necessary is the instructions above. This section about setting up a virtualenv was a path that I started down but ultimately wasn't applied. Leaving this information here just in case it would be of use in the future. 

* [http://djangonautlostinspace.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/django-and-windows Django and Windows]
* [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8688709/virtualenv-on-windows-7-returns-assertionerror/10078890 Stackoverflow: virtualenv on windows 7 returns AssertionError]
:* Running the command `virtualenv my-proj-env --no-site-packages` I was running into this error:
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AssertionError: Filename c:\Python27\Lib\os.py does not start with any of these prefixes: ['c:\\python27']
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:* There were two useful bits of advice in the Stackoverflow thread:
::* The path values stored in the `PYTHONPATH` environment variable need to match the case of the path at the end of the error message.<br />In my case both the drive letter and the "p" in "python" were lowercase and all the paths needed to match, i.e. both the "c" and "p" needed to be lowercase even though the directory name was actually capitalized.
::* Once that error was resolved, I got the following
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ImportError: No module named _socket
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::* Which was resolved by adding "c:\python27\DLLs" to the `PYTHONPATH` environment variable.