Duncan Booth wrote: > "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. You need to set your path manually. A BAT file called pypath.bat > > placed somewhere on your PATH and containing: > > path c:\python%1;c:\python%1\scripts;%path% > > might come in handy. Warning: this is best used once each time you open > > up a command window; it's cumulative (Windows is not smart enough to > > remove duplicate entries) and there is a an upper limit (I believe) on > > the size of the PATH. > > Windows is only smart enough to avoid duplicate entries if you tell it > to do that. e.g. > > PATH c:\python25;c:\python25\scripts;%PATH:c:\python25;c:\python25\scripts;=% > > will add the two Python 2.5 folders to the head of the path without > duplicating them.
Wow .. I didn't know that! What's the syntax? Something like %variablename[:oldtext=[newtext]]% ? Where is this documented? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
