[1.8.x] Corrected doc'd differences between django-admin and manage.py.

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``django-admin.py``.
In addition, ``manage.py`` is automatically created in each Django project.
``manage.py`` is a thin wrapper around ``django-admin`` that takes care of
several things for you before delegating to ``django-admin``:
``manage.py`` does the same thing as ``django-admin`` but takes care of a few
things for you:
* It puts your project's package on ``sys.path``.
* It sets the :envvar:`DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE` environment variable so that
it points to your project's ``settings.py`` file.
* It calls :func:`django.setup()` to initialize various internals of Django.
.. versionadded:: 1.7
:func:`django.setup()` didn't exist in previous versions of Django.
The ``django-admin`` script should be on your system path if you installed
Django via its ``setup.py`` utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it
in ``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider