PYTHONPATH & Win 98 - seems broken

[Mitchell Timin]

Agreed.

m

Quasimodo wrote:

> Piet's right.  It's not long filenames PYTHONPATH has a problem with, it's
> names.with spaces in it.
>
> Jose
>
> "Mitchell Timin" <timin at home.com> wrote in message
> news:39A143F0.330C08C2 at home.com...
> > 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
> >