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| References | <azrocknroll@gmail.com> <77ccd04d-60fe-495c-877f-871a50c89cd2@googlegroups.com> <201506110852.t5B8qo0m000584@fido.openend.se> |
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| Date | 2015-06-11 16:03 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: New Python student needs help with execution |
| From | Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.399.1434031421.13271.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote: > In a message of Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:50:54 -0700, c me writes: >>I installed 2.7.9 on a Win8.1 machine. The Coursera instructor did a simple install then executed Python from a file in which he'd put a simple hello world script. My similar documents folder cannot see the python executable. How do I make this work? >>-- >>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > You need to set your PYTHONPATH. > Instructions here should help. > https://docs.python.org/2.7/using/windows.html > > It is possible that you need to do some other things too, but again > that's the doc for it. > > Laura > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list It’s actually %PATH%. %PYTHONPATH% does something different and is not really useful to newcomers (especially since there are much better ways to accomplish what it does) -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16
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New Python student needs help with execution c me <azrocknroll@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 21:50 -0700 Re: New Python student needs help with execution Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-11 08:32 +0100 Re: New Python student needs help with execution Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-11 10:52 +0200 Re: New Python student needs help with execution Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 16:03 +0200 Re: New Python student needs help with execution Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-11 17:48 +0200
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