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Re: New Python student needs help with execution

From Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject Re: New Python student needs help with execution
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Date 2015-06-11 17:48 +0200
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.401.1434037704.13271.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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In a message of Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:03:33 +0200, Chris Warrick writes:
>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
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>> 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

Sorry about that -- what you get for not using windows.  Thank you.

Laura

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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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