Ben Sizer wrote: > I've installed several different versions of Python across several > different versions of MS Windows, and not a single time was the Python > directory or the Scripts subdirectory added to the PATH environment > variable. Every time, I've had to go through and add this by hand, to > have something resembling a usable Python installation. No such > problems on Linux, whether it be Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora Core, or > Kubuntu. So why is the Windows install half-crippled by default? I just > rediscovered this today when trying to run one of the Turbogears > scripts, but this has puzzled me for years now. >
Well, after Python is installed on a Windows platform, files with extention ".py" or ".pyw" are automatically associated with python or pythonw. If a python script is double-clicked or input something like "sth.py" in the "cmd" box, the python interpreter is automatically called. I don't see any proplem or inconvenience with this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
