Newbie question - please don't hate me

[Cory McPhee]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
news:Y8LG9.5243$jf5.3810 at fe04...
> "Cory McPhee" <writecory at shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:dnxG9.86919$ea.1494233 at news2.calgary.shaw.ca...
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Cory: the FAQ is your friend, but nobody here is likely to hate you for
> failing to use it (the first time, at least :-). I and a couple of others
> spent some time on
>
>     http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq08.018.htp
>
> so newcomers would be able to run Windows programs. Let me know if it
leaves
> you with unanswered questions.
>
> regards
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>Thanks to Glen and Steve for your quick answers and apologies to Steve.
I appreciate the time and effort that went into the FAQ.  I understand how
difficult it must be to provide such well presented information to us
dummies :) who don't have the savvy to switch to some Unix variant (which is
why i'm trying to learn something about talking to computers ie.Python).  I
rather enjoyed the FAQ, and I suspect you enjoyed writing it ;)
    'So, how do you arrange for the interpreter to handle your Python? '
In the future I will always start with the FAQ with any questions.
Thanks again
cory