[Distutils] Help needed please

[david bennett]

PJ
awesome, thanks.
the path was set right, but turns out it was set in PythonPath, not Path
do i need to have %PATH% before the various paths?
cheers
dav-o

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PJ Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>
To: "david bennett" <davidbennett at ozemail.com.au>
Cc: <distutils-sig at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Help needed please


> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:03 AM, david bennett
> <davidbennett at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>> G'day
>> AIM: i'm trying to use Drive API with Python 2.7.3 to read and write 
>> files.
>>
>> PROBLEM: is with the install of "easy_install" (ironic, i know)
>>
>> 1. I have enabled the drive api
>> 2. I can see that the google client library must be there because the 
>> files
>> are in c:/program files/python/scripts
>>
>> BUT when i type easy_install into cmd window it is not recognised
>
> Type "path" into the command window and double-check that C:/Program
> Files/Python/Scripts is listed.
>
> (Do check, also, that C:/Program Files/Python/Scripts is actually
> where easy_install.exe is located -- the standard installation
> location for many versions of Python would be C:\Python27, not
> C:\Program Files\Python.)
>
>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4016151/how-to-use-pythons-easy-install-on-windows-its-not-so-easy?rq=1
>> mentions that "you should see that your winpexpect package has been
>> installed correctly." winexpect. where is this located? how is this done?
>
> That discussion is actually about installing winpexpect, not about
> installing easy_install.  So the problem that person was having is
> entirely unrelated to the one you are having.
>
>
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