On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Sonja Williams via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > > > > Good Day, > > I have decided to learn more about programming so I picked up the book > Beginning Programming by Matt Telles. After following the directions > verbatim and going to the Python site to download the latest version 3, which > is what the book recommended, I keep getting the following error message when > running my first script. I am using Windows 7 - 64 bit > > " python is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable > program, or batch file". >
You may have run into a difficulty of Windows setups. Try instead typing "py ch3_1.py" - the Windows installer should have created a little bouncer program. If that works, use that for the rest of the book - any time you're told to run "python", run "py" instead, with the same parameters. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
