Why does Python never add itself to the Windows path?

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Tuesday 2/1/2007 13:58, Ben Sizer wrote:

> > Notice that there is NO need to alter the system path. You just have
> > to tell Windows where python.exe resides; there is a per-application
> > path located at
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths.
>
> >From what I can tell, that is solely for file associations. If so, it
>will work if you type "setup.py install" but not if you type "python
>setup.py install". For instance, I have an entry for Firefox in that
>part of the registry, but if you try executing "firefox" at the command
>line, it fails.

Typing "start firefox" at the command line should work.
It appears that cmd.exe does *not* use ShellExecute to find the 
executable, so this approach doesn't work as expected :(


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	

	
		
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