In a message of Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:03:33 +0200, Chris Warrick writes: >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
Sorry about that -- what you get for not using windows. Thank you. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list