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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: problems using python in PowerShell
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 02:09:27 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:53 AM, josephine ewers via Python-list
><python-list@python.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am doing an online training course to learn python but when I enter
>> 'python' in Microsoft PowerShell as I am supposed to do I always get an
>> error message.
>
>What error message, exactly?
>
>Is Python installed? Which Python is installed? What OS are you
>running? What is your $PATH (or %PATH%)? We can't help you with no
>information.
>
	I'd add: is the behavior the same if using the regular Windows "command
prompt" instead of PowerShell? PowerShell tends to have lots of security
aspects that prevent some things from running unless the security level has
been changed.
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