Andre Engels wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Andre Engels wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:20 PM, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com>
wrote:
I've successfully compiled several small python programs on Win XP into
executables using py2exe. A program goes from a name like snowball.py to
snowball. A dir in the command prompt window finds snowball.py but not
snowball. If I type in snowball, it executes. What's up with that?
No idea whether it has to do with your problem, but if it's executable
in Windows, its name is snowball.exe, not snowball.
Not necessarily, it's perfectly possible to setup a Python script to run on
Windows using file associations in the same way that you can run a command
(.bat) file. If the OP types the command "ASSOC .py" without the quotes at
the command prompt, the response .py=Python.File tells you
that this association has been setup.
And how does that invalidate what I wrote? One cannot associate the
empty extension, so if "snowball" runs a program, that's the program
in the file "snowball.exe" not the program in the file "snowball" that
has its extension associated to something - it has no extension, so
its extension cannot be associated.
Darn, only half the story, sorry. When the OP types snowball something
executes. The command SET PATHEXT will show what file extensions are
set to run files. On my system the response is :-
c:\Users\Mark\Java2Python>set pathext
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC;.PY
So snowball with any one of the 12 extensions listed above would run on
my system without actually typing the extension. I'm just guessing but
has an executable been created but in another directory, so snowball.py
is running? Perhaps the best bet is simply to search appropriate
directories, or even the whole hard drive, for snowball.*. Then the OP
would know exactly what he has or hasn't got.
HTH.
Mark Lawrence
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