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Re: New Python student needs help with execution

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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?
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>>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> You need to set your PYTHONPATH.
> Instructions here should help.
> https://docs.python.org/2.7/using/windows.html
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> It is possible that you need to do some other things too, but again
> that's the doc for it.
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> Laura
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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)

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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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