Why Don't Scripts Run ?

[Andrae Muys]

Michael Kelly <mkelly2002NOSPAM at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<1p9v8u4vo4dqpccjsom40gtjlgtaiedve8 at 4ax.com>...
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:37:00 GMT, jrc <jrchaff at mcn.net> wrote:
> 
> >Hi - I'm a reasonably experienced programmer.  I work in
> >Windows (ME). Thinking to give Python a try, I downloaded
> >v22 and installed.  At first, it looks good, but then, I discover
> >it seems impossible to get any scripts to run in the command
> >prompt, using any available documentation whatever.  I even
> >have Chris Fehily's book - essentially none of his examples
> >work with scripts from command prompt; yet this is a 2002
> >book .  (?!!)
> 
> Hi.  If you don't have any Python 2.2 dependencies or just
> want to try Python out you might find it less frustrating to
> download ActivePython 2.1.  For me(using Win98 2nd Ed.)
> even the Windows Scripting Host worked out of the box.
> I've even been using my COM servers on Win98 using
> ActivePython with no problems at all.
> 

On the W2000 box I have to use at work atm, I just installed cygwin
and included python2.2.  Gave me a decent cli, and python2.2.

Administrator at TTDEV2 ~
$ pytest.py
Hello World

Administrator at TTDEV2 ~
$ python pytest.py
Hello World

Administrator at TTDEV2 ~
$ ls -l pytest.py
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None           39 Mar 14 10:09 pytest.py

Administrator at TTDEV2 ~
$ cat pytest.py
#!/usr/bin/python

print "Hello World"

Administrator at TTDEV2 ~
$ which python
/usr/bin/python

Andrae Muys