New Python student needs help with execution

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:50:54 -0700, c me writes:
>I installed 2.7.9 on a Win8.1 machine. The Coursera instructor did a simple install then executed Python from a file in which he'd put a simple hello world script.  My similar documents folder cannot see the python executable.  How do I make this work?
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You need to set your PYTHONPATH.
Instructions here should help.
https://docs.python.org/2.7/using/windows.html

It is possible that you need to do some other things too, but again
that's the doc for it.

Laura