New Python student needs help with execution

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:03:33 +0200, Chris Warrick writes:
>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
>>
>> 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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Sorry about that -- what you get for not using windows.  Thank you.

Laura