New Python student needs help with execution

[Chris Warrick]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
> 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
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> It is possible that you need to do some other things too, but again
> that's the doc for it.
>
> Laura
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It’s actually %PATH%. %PYTHONPATH% does something different and is not
really useful to newcomers (especially since there are much better
ways to accomplish what it does)

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