Winodws10 Command Prompt unresponsive to .py commands

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 8/03/2023 6:31 am, Thomas Gregg wrote:
> Hi,  I got python 11 to work with the esptool a few days ago.  However, I
> must have something wrong, because now, when I enter any command with .py,
> Windows Command Prompt just returns without doing anything.  Example
>
> C:\Users\gregg>esptool.py version
>
> C:\Users\gregg>
>
> I tried to change the Windows default by filetype. but no luck.  Any
> ideas?  Thanks

Prove it works in the command prompt by using the full path to python 
for example,

C:\Python311\python C:\Users\gregg>esptool.py version

If that works, look at your path environment variables and see where 
python is sitting. Substitute the real location of Python 3.11 on your 
machine. Sadly, I think it defaults to C:\Program Files nowadays.

Once you can get Python working by omitting the path, for example,

C:\Users\gregg>python esptool.py version

... you can then right-click the .py file and choose whichever program 
you like to open with.

I'm inclined to advise you to focus on getting virtual environments 
working next and leave all that auto-opening to later. You might find 
you prefer to right click and select every time.

M

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