Newbie question - please don't hate me

[Glen Murphy]

> In his tutorial on Python programming Richard Baldwin says "You will need
to
> cause the directory containing the file named python.exe to be listed in
> your system environment variable named path."
>
> I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to tell me how I should go
> about doing this in Windows XP, or even just point me to where I can find
> out how to do this.


Control panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables > System variables
> Path (edit)

Then add c:\python22 (or whever you installed python) to this, and make sure
it's separated from the previous item in the list by a semicolon (;)

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