PYTHONPATH & Win 98 - seems broken

[Mitchell Timin]

Thanks to all those who helped.  The trouble turns out to be that the python
interpreter wont accept "my documents" as part of PYTHONPATH; it requires
mydocu~1.

m

Mitchell Timin wrote:

> Admittedly, I'm a newbie, but it seems clear enough that the PYTHONPATH
> variable should let me access a .py file in a different directory.  details:
>
> I'm working in a DOS window.  PYTHONPATH is set to:
> c:\"my documents"\python.  In that directory is a file prog.py.  My current
> directory is c:\Python16.  I type: python prog.py, and I get the message
> "can't open file 'prog.py'.
>
> ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> m