"Brian van den Broek" <van...@gmail.com> 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 Path environment variable via the Control Panel|System
Properties way of editing Environment variables. I've had him reboot
afterwards.
Get him to type
SET > env.txt
at the DOS prompt that should list all environment variables into
env.txt
Get him to email that file to you and check what it says about PATH.
After all of that, he reports that an attempt to run python from the
command prompt produces a complaint that `` `python' is not
recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or
batch file.''
What happens if he types
C:PROMPT> C:\Python26\python.exe
In other words uses the full path?
Can someone with Windows knowledge please tell me what I am missing?
Nothing so far as I can tell, but from experience you need to double
check
the settings at every stage, its very easy to make a mistake - like
using
a colon instead of semi colon etc.
pythonw.exe is what you associate with .py files to prevent a
double-click on a .py icon from producing the `DOS box flash' and
*not* what one wants to use from the prompt itself.)
pythonw is used for running GUI apps without a console appearing in
the background. You definitely don;t want to runpythonw from the
command line!
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk
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