Win32 : Making script.py executable in DOS box

[Robin Dunn]

> > Under Windows NT or Win2k, you can use the PATHEXT environment
> > variable. Simply add ".py" to the semi-colon sep'd list of
> > extensions, and off you go!
>
> Great, thats a help for NT, but I also want to do this on Win98 :-).
>
> > No solution I am aware of for 95, although there are some tricks
> > you can pull (Im sure someone else will fill these in for you)!
>
> Anyone???
>

If you use the 4DOS command shell instead of command.com then you can set an
environment variable like this:

    set .py=c:\path\to\python.exe

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