Verifying I installed Python correctly

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:49:05 +0100, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org>
declaimed the following:

>
>
>> On 25 Apr 2022, at 21:14, Jack Dangler <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Have you tried
>> 
>> python3 hello.py
>
>Will not work on windows. Python is always installed as python.exe and py.exe only.
>

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19044.1645]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Wulfraed>python3
Python ActivePython 3.8.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
 on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

C:\Users\Wulfraed>python3.8
Python ActivePython 3.8.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
 on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

C:\Users\Wulfraed>

C:\Users\Wulfraed>echo %path%
C:\Python38\;C:\Python38\DLLs\;C:\Python38\Scripts\;C:\Python38\Tools\;C:\Python38\Tools\ninja\;C:\Program
Files\PuTTY\;C:\Apps\SQLite3\;C:\Apps\Firebird_4_0;C:\Apps\gnuplot\bin;C:\Apps\R\R-4.0.5\bin\x64;C:\Program
Files
(x86)\SciTE;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files\rexx.org\Regina;C:\Apps\Rexx-Extensi
<SNIP>

C:\Users\Wulfraed>dir c:\Python38\*.exe
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 4ACC-3CB4

 Directory of c:\Python38

08/25/2020  06:52 PM           998,328 py.exe
08/25/2020  06:53 PM           102,328 python.exe
08/25/2020  06:53 PM           102,336 python3.8.exe
08/25/2020  06:53 PM           102,336 python3.exe
08/25/2020  06:53 PM            26,568 pythonservice.exe
08/25/2020  06:53 PM           100,800 pythonw.exe
08/25/2020  06:53 PM           999,352 pyw.exe
10/08/2020  05:24 PM           587,776 Removepywin32.exe
08/25/2020  06:55 PM           123,848 update_check.exe
               9 File(s)      3,143,672 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  650,737,926,144 bytes free

C:\Users\Wulfraed>

	Yes, it is an older version of the ActiveState release, but they did
install with the various versioned names. All I had to do was ensure the
directory was on the system PATH.




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