<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 14:34, Christian Heimes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@cheimes.de">lists@cheimes.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Am 28.01.2011 20:29, schrieb Raymond Hettinger:<br>
<div class="im">> At the very least, we should add some prominent instructions for getting the command line version up and running.<br>
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</div>/me pops out of Guido's time machine and says: "execute<br>
Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py"<br>
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I'm -1 on adding Python to %PATH%. The private MSVCRT DLLs may lead to<br>
unexpected side effects and it doesn't scale at all. What about people<br>
with more than one Python installation?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The same "problem" exists when it comes to file associations. The last installer you've run wins the battle. Since setting file associations is optional, and only one association can exist, I don't see why we can't do the same for the PATH.</div>
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