Windows and python execution

[Mark Carter]

rzed wrote:
> Mark Carter <me at privacy.net> wrote in
> news:43afdec0$0$15788$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk: 
> 
> 
>>What I would like to do it type something like
>>
>>>myscript.py
>>
>>instead of
>>
>>>python myscript.py

> As another poster points out, be sure that your Python is on your 
> path. 
> 
> And there is a PATHEXT environment variable, 

Aha. You'bve provided a significant clue.

What you need to do is include the following line in autoexec.bat:
set .py=c:\python24\python.exe

This will achieve the desired result. I'm suprised more people don't use it.