[Tutor] A few Python Mysteries

Wayne Watson sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 20 02:47:21 CET 2011


The PATH variable for me (user) has c:\Users\Wayne\g95\bin

On 12/19/2011 12:25 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> James wrote:
> In windows 7,
>
> 1. Go to start
> 2. Right click on "Computer"
> 3. Select Properties. This will bring up the "System" menu.
> 4. Select "Advanced system Settings" on the left hand side.
> 5. In this new window, select Environment variables... at the bottom
> 6. In the bottom window area, scroll down until you find "PATH"
> 7. Select "Edit" (do NOT delete anything contained in this or will screw some stuff up)
> 8. scroll to the very end and put a ; as a deliminator if there isn't one on the end already. Then put the direct path to you Python install you care about. (it should be something like this:(;C:\Python27) - this is mine in fact.
> 9. Hit OK. Then accept your way out. You will have to reboot.
> 10. To test, open a cmd prompt and and type simply "python". if you get Python 2.7.2 (some more stuff) then python is now on your path.
> =============================================================================================
> Modify "User Variables" and not "System variables".
> You will need to restart any open command prompt
> but not the full machine.
>
> PATH=%PATH%;c:\python27
>
> That should pick up the system variables
> and then append python's location to it.
>
> http://geekswithblogs.net/renso/archive/2009/10/21/how-to-set-the-windows-path-in-windows-7.aspx
>
> If that does not work; then feel free to follow
> James's advice and then restart.
>
>
> Ramit
>
>
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