Where does my output go?

[Gerhard Häring]

Maan M. Hamze wrote:
> "Michael Abbott" <michael at rcp.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Xns91139DA18A194michaelrcpcouk at 194.238.50.13...
> 
>>So, I write a small bit of Python (one line):
>>
>>write.py
>>--------
>>    print 'hello'
>>--------
>>
>>I then run it from the command line:
>>
>>
>>    C:\TEMP>ver
>>
>>    Windows NT Version 4.0
>>
>>    C:\TEMP>write
>>    Hello
>>
>>
> I do not understand this step here.  How are you running write as an
> executable?

C:\temp\e>echo %PATHEXT%
.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.py;.pyw;.pyc;.pys
                                                  ^^^^

A nifty trick done by the Windows installer. You can run Python scripts 
like if they were executables :-)

Gerhard
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