PYTHONPATH & Win 98 - seems broken

[Jonadab the Unsightly One]

"Kevin Cazabon" <kcazabon at home.com> wrote:

> Well, it doesn't do any good that your PYTHONPATH is set to include the
> directory that your prog.py file is in... it's not PYTHON that is
> interpreting your command, it's DOS.

That's entirely wrong.

Firstly, he isn't using DOS; he's using Windows, which only claims
to be the same thing; it isn't.  However, that aside, either DOS
or Windows behave the same in this respect:  the path is only
searched for executable (external) commands, not other files.  
Besides that, COMMAND.COM does not dork with arguments; the
command receives them as the user typed them.  The only exceptions
are redirection and piping, which aren't arguments at all really.  

- jonadab