Python in DOS

[William Park]

On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:24:25PM -0500, Curtis, Craig M. wrote:
> Does anyone know the "approved" way to get rid of the following message:
> 
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Python 1.5.2 (#6, Nov 18 1999, 17:19:05)  [GCC 2.8.1] on ms-dos7
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> 
> 
> I've tried everything I can think of to set PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH and
> python ALWAYS starts up this way.

If I remember (this was long long time ago), I had to remove case
sensitivity for library files by setting some dummy environment
variable.