On 12/28/2012 10:30 AM, philip.a.mol...@gmail.com wrote: > I am writing a command-line application for Windows. I would like to review > the Python source code to find out how to install my application so that it > doesn't have to be called using the path and file name (i.e. being able to > type `python` into the Command prompt, instead of > `C:\path\to\executable\python.exe`). How does Python achieve this?
I use linux, ubuntu. But I help others that use Windows, when necessary. Last time I installed python from python.org on a Windows machine (years ago), it didn't do such niceties for me. For that and other reasons, I switched to using the (free) version from ActiveState. It has a number of Windows extensions, and one of the extensions was actually fixing the path and the registry so that Python was directly available at the command line. That all could have changed, of course. But I'm assuming you just want to fix Windows, not somehow duplicate whatever the installer didn't do? Take a look in your install directory, same one that python.exe is located in, and see if there is a batch file there, and whether it knows where to find Python.exe. If so, just copy that to somewhere on your PATH, and you should be golden. I always had a c:\bat directory on my PATH for other purposes, so that was a perfect place to put it. > Is the Python directory (i.e. "C:\Python33") assigned to the PATH variable > using the Batch PATH built-in command? If so, where? That's another option. Of course, if everyone did that, the PATH could get mighty long. And describing how to change the PATH globally is tricky, since Microsoft seems to change it with every release of Windows. If you were trying to do that programmatically, there is a registry entry somewhere. And if I needed to find the right registry entry, I'd put a weird directory name into the PATH the official way, then use regedit and F3 to search for the weird name. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
