running python from cmd.exe

[Dominic Rice]

Miki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> I can't seem to get python to run my scripts using the command: python
>> <userscript>.py
>>
>> If I type python the interpreter runs as I sorted out the Path property,
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't know much about this kind of thing as I'm a science
>> student who needs some Python not a programmer!
> Can you be more specific about the error you get?
> 
> Say you have a script hw.py that contains one line:
> print "Hello Python"
> 
> and you run
> python hw.py
> 
> What is the error you get?
> 
> HTH,
> --
> Miki <miki.tebeka at gmail.com>
> http://pythonwise.blogspot.com
> 
Sure, I get:

can't open file <userscript>.py: [errorno 2]No such file or directory.

Now if I've noticed that if I change directory to (for instance) 
\Python25 where the script is the command runs fine.(?)