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[Strato]

Hello, I am a beginner in Python , i am not able to set the
environment variable in windows so that i can execute python script
through command prompt , and also i am not able to male *.py as
executable i.e. whenever i double click the file it should run it.
Please help and reply me at (e-mail address removed) . Its urgent brother ,
i will wait for your reply.

 

[Esmail]

Hello, I am a beginner in Python , i am not able to set the
environment variable in windows so that i can execute python script
through command prompt , and also i am not able to male *.py as
executable i.e. whenever i double click the file it should run it.
Please help and reply me at (e-mail address removed) . Its urgent brother ,
i will wait for your reply.

Take a look at

http://docs.python.org/using/index.html

especially section 3 talks about how to setup Python on the Windows
platform.

Have you tried specifying the whole path in the command window?
For instance I have version 2.6 installed, so I can type

c:\Python26\python.exe script.py

to get this to work.

Good luck,

Esmail
ps: try renaming the .py extension to .pyw and then double click it
(should have worked before too - as far as I know this only prevents
a command window from opening, but it can't hurt trying).

 

[Emile van Sebille]

Hello, I am a beginner in Python , i am not able to set the
environment variable in windows so that i can execute python script
through command prompt , and also i am not able to male *.py as
executable i.e. whenever i double click the file it should run it.

Download and install the activestate distribution -- here's the link
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/windows/2.6/ActivePython-2.6.1.1-win32-x86.msi

HTH,

Emile