If you're right about having to give the full path, and I suspect you
are, Then this means that python knows to search the currennt working
directory for the file to execute, but nowhere else.
Correct, just like every other program.
If you run notepad foo.txt notepad will open a new foo.txt
in the current folder it will not search your drive to find some
other foo.txt that you created prevbiously.
Why would python be any different?
I didn't realize other program were also behaving that way, I don't work
much with the command prompt anymore :-)
The trick to do what you want is not to execute python but
to execute the script and allow the OS to associate Python
with it.
That is what I was missing, C:\test.py will execute.
So either just type the script name into the prompt (assuming
it is on the PATH) or double click in explorer and Windows will
find Python itself.
HTH,
It sure does, thanks everybody for the great replies,
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