Terry Reedy wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 2008-09-02 23:14, Terry Reedy wrote:
An alternative to manipulating PATH would be to make and add to the Start Menu a Command Prompt shortcut, call it Command Window or something, that starts in the Python directory. Then one could enter
python or >Scripts/goforit without chdir-ing to the Python directory first. The background could even be set to green, for instance, to differentiate it from the standard Command Prompt window.
There already is a menu entry that starts the Python interpreter on Windows, so why not use that ?
I do and will*, but some people want to start a command window and then type 'python' just like they would on *nix (*without having to explicitly change to the Python directory*), or be able to run stuff in a subdirectory of the Python directory. So I suggested an alternative to the request for PATH manipulation that could easily be done now.
A cleaner (though still dirty) way to achieve this would be to add a link to the appropriate "python.exe" in a directory already on the path such as c:\Windows\system32
* I recently *did* run Python from a command prompt so I could make sure it was running 'cmd.exe /u' and try changing the code page (but this is another story), but I simply moved to the directory first. For me, not a big deal.
My own solution, on systems where I haven't bothered to add \python25 and python25\Scripts to the PATH, is to simply use \python25\python With tab expansion enabled by default it's easy enough. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/