On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:55 PM, ctalley<[email protected]> wrote: > > This is probably off topic, but here goes... > > I can't run "python web2py.py --upgrade yes" from any directory except > the directory containing web2py.py
That's correct. > > I get this error => python: can't open file 'web2py.py': [Errno 2] No > such file or directory That's correct. > > I've added the web2py.py path to the Windows PATH system variable and > verified using echo %PATH% from the command prompt. This is not relevant, as "web2py.py" is not the command; it is the parameter to the executable, python (which needs to be in your path, or have the full path specified to it) - on windows, windows knows that *.exe are one kind of executable file, so it is really running this for you: python.exe web2py.py .... > > I've created and added the web2py.py path to the Windows PYTHONPATH > system variable and verified using echo %PYTHONPATH% from the command > prompt. This is where the python interpreter will look for libraries, e.g. import statements... If you say: import foobar and foobar isn't in current directory, then python will search the PYTHONPATH > > I've added the web2py.py path to sys.path using sys.path.append and > verified using print sys.path Again - this would have an effect if you wrote a script that did "import web2py" - but since web2py isn't a module (rather an application) this is of little use. > > I can run python from the command prompt from any directory. That means you have it in your windows PATH environment. > > I can run web2py.py from the command prompt from any directory. > What this means is that you have assiciated *.py in wondows as a kind of executable to be run by python.exe (which is ok); this only works from any directory because you have added web2py.py to your windows path. > Obviously there's some kind of path problem, but I can't figure out > what. Anybody ever see this? There is no problem - everything is working exactly as expected. If you want to pass web2py.py as a parameter to python.exe from anywhere, you need to tell python where to find the web2py.py file to open it. For example, if you set a windows environment variable such as: WEB2PY_PATH then python %WEB2PY_PATH/web2py.py would work as you are expecting. BTW - this is not specific to windows - the same is true, for example, on Linux, for each item I've pointed out. Regards, - Yarko > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
