Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Brian van den Broek" wrote I'll have him verify all steps again and then call `gremlins'. One last thing to try is to get him to send a screen shot with the error message showing. That will prove that he is using the right type of console, typing the right command and reporting the righ

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Brian van den Broek
Kent Johnson said unto the world at 15/01/09 12:33 PM: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Brian van den Broek wrote: The (recognized by me as) relevant bits of output are: Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32;C:\Python26 PATHEXT=.CO

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Brian van den Broek" wrote The (recognized by me as) relevant bits of output are: Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32;C:\Python26 PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH That looks OK. Puzzling! Scraping th

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Brian van den Broek wrote: > > The (recognized by me as) relevant bits of output are: > Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program > Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32;C:\Python26 > PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH > >

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > if he just needs to run python scripts you just need to type the > script name (preferably from the directory it is in) > > eg: C:\Path\To\App>app_name.py > > and it will run > By default, and on most people's machines, not true. You can do

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Dj Gilcrease
if he just needs to run python scripts you just need to type the script name (preferably from the directory it is in) eg: C:\Path\To\App>app_name.py and it will run Also if you have changed the enviromental variables, you need to close the command prompt and re-open it on windows since it does n

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Kent Johnson
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Brian van den Broek wrote: > The (recognized by me as) relevant bits of output are: > Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program > Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32;C:\Python26 > PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH > >

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Brian van den Broek
Brian van den Broek said unto the world at 15/01/09 11:27 AM: Alan Gauld said unto the world at 14/01/09 07:34 PM: "Brian van den Broek" wrote DOS prompt and replies including Alan's suggestion to get a text file dump of environment variables.> With the full path, python loads as expecte

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-15 Thread Brian van den Broek
Alan Gauld said unto the world at 14/01/09 07:34 PM: "Brian van den Broek" wrote icon for Idle launching as expected. When run from IDLE, `print sys.executable' yields `C:\\Python26\\pythonw.exe'. He reports that C:\Python26 contains both python.exe and pythonw.exe. I've had him add the tex

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Marc Tompkins" wrote - Also as wesley said, there MAY BE two separate PATHs - in my experience, the user-level one is usually empty and can be deleted to avoid confusion. If it's _not_ empty, it's usually by mistake... It should be used where multiple users use a single machine and they

Re: [Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Brian van den Broek" wrote icon for Idle launching as expected. When run from IDLE, `print sys.executable' yields `C:\\Python26\\pythonw.exe'. He reports that C:\Python26 contains both python.exe and pythonw.exe. I've had him add the text `;C:\Python26' (without quotes) to the end of his