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On 10/09/2012 07:10, Dwight Hutto wrote:
> I have several installations on my windows, so I use
> c:\python27_64\python.exe module_file.py
>
> or
>
> c:\python26\python.exe module_file.py
>
> in the command line.
>
>
> Not to show that this shouldn't be a discussion, but usually it's
> searching. Here's search term a link, and some python docs:
>
> install python windows command line
>
> or click:
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=install+python+windows+command+line&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-ahere's
>
> and one of the better results:
>
> http://docs.python.org/faq/windows.html#how-do-i-run-a-python-program-under-windows
>
>
>
>

Why have you posted this seeing that the OP stated that they're on Mac OS X?

The windows faq is outdated wrt PEP397.  An up to date version is 
available here http://docs.python.org/dev/using/windows.html

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.