On 22 Apr, 11:24, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > David Cournapeau schrieb: > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:20 PM, 83nini <83n...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi guys, > > >> I'm new to python, i downloaded version 2.5, opened windows (vista) > >> command line and wrote "python", this should take me to the python > >> command line, but it did not! i'm getting : python is not an internal > >> command, external command, program, or command file. > > > The installer does not add the path of python into your %PATH% > > variable, You have to do it manually or call the full command path > > (C:\Python25\python.exe or something) > > I highly recommend against adding C:\Python25 to your %PATH%. You can > get the same effect by adding a simple bat file to C:\Windows\System32 > > --- > @C:\Python25\python.exe %* > --- > > Call it python25.bat and you are done. Apropos call, don't forget to > "call python25" in batch files. :) > > Christian
THIS IS REALLY KILLING ME!!! i've been trying everything you adviced me to do, none works!!! all i want to do is to type "python" in the cmd and get the python command line i want to run a server writing "python manage.py runserver" that is not working either, of course cos "python" command is not working. is this one of the stupid things that vista causes? or what??? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list