On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > In a message of Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:50:54 -0700, c me writes: >>I installed 2.7.9 on a Win8.1 machine. The Coursera instructor did a simple >>install then executed Python from a file in which he'd put a simple hello >>world script. My similar documents folder cannot see the python executable. >>How do I make this work? >>-- >>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > You need to set your PYTHONPATH. > Instructions here should help. > https://docs.python.org/2.7/using/windows.html > > It is possible that you need to do some other things too, but again > that's the doc for it. > > Laura > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
It’s actually %PATH%. %PYTHONPATH% does something different and is not really useful to newcomers (especially since there are much better ways to accomplish what it does) -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
