Question

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Sonja Williams via Python-list
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> Good Day,
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> I have decided to learn more about programming so I picked up the book Beginning Programming by Matt Telles.  After following the directions verbatim and going to the Python site to download the latest version 3, which is what the book recommended, I keep getting the following error message when running my first script. I am using Windows 7 - 64 bit
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> " python is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file".
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You may have run into a difficulty of Windows setups. Try instead
typing "py ch3_1.py" - the Windows installer should have created a
little bouncer program. If that works, use that for the rest of the
book - any time you're told to run "python", run "py" instead, with
the same parameters.

ChrisA