Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'scripts': 0.03; 'subject:error': 0.03; 'nasty': 0.07; 'referring': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'psf': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; 'windows': 0.15; '1:08': 0.16; '>on': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'python3.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'tcl': 0.16; 'sat,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'bytes': 0.24; 'url:home': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'possibly': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'installed': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; '>>>>': 0.31; 'doc': 0.31; 'existence': 0.31; 'probably': 0.32; 'skip:c 30': 0.32; 'created': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'done': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'launch': 0.39; 'volume': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'subject: ': 0.61; 'new': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'skip:n 10': 0.64; 'linked': 0.65; 'serial': 0.72; 'installer': 0.84; 'subject:Lists': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: I am out of trial and error again Lists Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:57:07 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: <2412654f-ac5e-4678-8956-afc4e27affb3@googlegroups.com> <93qn4a5g5bd93h5rmase56v5li8mkv0inf@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-220-245.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 82 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1414371441 news.xs4all.nl 2857 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41602 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:79741 On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:44:51 -0400, Terry Reedy declaimed the following: >On 10/26/2014 1:08 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:48:59 -0400, Terry Reedy >> declaimed the following: >> >>>> C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>python3 >>> >>> You must have done something extra to make this work on Windows. >> >> Possibly hand-edited my system PATH -- I've got a rather nasty one >> (inserting line breaks)... > >I was referring to the existence of 'python3' (and 'python2'). I >presume these are created by the ActiveState installer that you said you >used. There are not created by the PSF Windows installer. It instead >creates 'py' linked to the new launcher; 'py -2' and 'py -3' launch the >latest available python 2 or python3. Probably -- since the last time I installed a non-ActiveState build probably goes back to Python 1.5 on an Amiga... C:\Python_x64\Python27>dir Volume in drive C is OS Volume Serial Number is 2004-C3FA Directory of C:\Python_x64\Python27 02/15/2014 01:27 PM . 02/15/2014 01:27 PM .. 02/15/2014 01:27 PM DLLs 10/23/2014 09:12 AM Doc 02/15/2014 01:27 PM include 10/15/2014 09:57 PM Lib 02/15/2014 01:27 PM libs 06/01/2013 09:15 PM 4,612 MySQL-python-wininst.log 09/17/2013 12:31 AM 27,136 python.exe 09/17/2013 12:31 AM 27,136 python2.7.exe 09/17/2013 12:31 AM 27,136 python2.exe 09/17/2013 12:31 AM 27,648 pythonw.exe 09/17/2013 12:31 AM 27,648 pythonw2.7.exe 09/17/2013 12:31 AM 27,648 pythonw2.exe 06/01/2013 09:15 PM 223,744 RemoveMySQL-python.exe 02/15/2014 01:27 PM Scripts 02/15/2014 01:27 PM tcl 02/15/2014 01:27 PM Tools 8 File(s) 392,708 bytes 10 Dir(s) 1,514,469,974,016 bytes free C:\Python_x64\Python27> C:\Python_x64\Python33>dir Volume in drive C is OS Volume Serial Number is 2004-C3FA Directory of C:\Python_x64\Python33 02/15/2014 01:36 PM . 02/15/2014 01:36 PM .. 02/15/2014 01:35 PM DLLs 10/15/2014 10:02 PM Doc 02/15/2014 01:35 PM include 02/15/2014 01:36 PM Lib 02/15/2014 01:36 PM libs 09/17/2013 12:37 AM 40,448 python.exe 09/17/2013 12:37 AM 40,448 python3.3.exe 09/17/2013 12:37 AM 40,448 python3.exe 09/17/2013 12:37 AM 40,960 pythonw.exe 09/17/2013 12:37 AM 40,960 pythonw3.3.exe 09/17/2013 12:37 AM 40,960 pythonw3.exe 02/15/2014 01:36 PM Scripts 02/15/2014 01:36 PM tcl 02/15/2014 01:36 PM Tools 6 File(s) 244,224 bytes 10 Dir(s) 1,514,469,974,016 bytes free C:\Python_x64\Python33> -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/