[Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

[Dj Gilcrease]

if he just needs to run python scripts you just need to type the
script name (preferably from the directory it is in)

eg: C:\Path\To\App>app_name.py

and it will run

Also if you have changed the enviromental variables, you need to close
the command prompt and re-open it on windows since it does not
propagate to existing instances

Dj Gilcrease
OpenRPG Developer
~~http://www.openrpg.com



On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Brian van den Broek
<broek at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> Brian van den Broek said unto the world at 15/01/09 11:27 AM:
>>
>> Alan Gauld said unto the world at 14/01/09 07:34 PM:
>>>
>>> "Brian van den Broek" <vanden at gmail.com> wrote
>
> <snip my account of Windows using friend unable to invoke python at DOS
> prompt and replies including Alan's suggestion to get a text file dump of
> environment variables.>
>
>> With the full path, python loads as expected. I'm awaiting the results of
>> SET > env.txt
>> as per Alan's suggestion above.
>
> Never fails. Shortly after posting, I got an answer back from the friend I'm
> trying to help.
>
> The (recognized by me as) relevant bits of output are:
> Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
> Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32;C:\Python26
> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
>
> There is no subsequent Path line that might be stomping on the line shown
> above.
>
> I'm surprised that it is `Path' rather than `PATH'. Does that matter? I'm
> pretty sure that my friend didn't change that, as once he got into the `Edit
> System Variable' dialog, he felt uncertain and sent me a screen shot before
> he effected any modifications; the screen shot shows `Path'.
>
> Last, the texlive entry is from an installation of latex that I guided him
> through right before we installed python. Invoking latex from the command
> line works as expected, so I conclude that the Path is not broken.
>
>> If that doesn't clear it up for me, I shall report back.
>
> Didn't and did.
>
> Thanks and best,
>
> Brian
>
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