PYTHONPATH & Win 98 - seems broken

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> (SH) writes:

SH> The sad fact appears to be that the interpreter does not use the
SH> PYTHONPATH variable when looking for the file named on the command
SH> line, only for modules referred to by "from" and "import" statements.

SH> In the UNIX environment you can just make your python script executable,
SH> then you can use the script name as long as it's in a directory on your
SH> PATH.

SH> You can do a similar thing in Windows NT (and, I believe, W2K, but I am
SH> not yet fighting that particular OS).  This involves setting registry
SH> values to associate the ".py" extension with the interpreter.

SH> Windows 95 and 98 lose here, as there doesn't appear to be a way to
SH> associate arbitrary filename extensions with particular interpreters.

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