confused about path

[Michael Hudson]

Albert Wagner <alwagner at tcac.net> writes:

> Assuming I am set up correctly, shouldn't I be able to invoke idle like
> this:
> 
> $ python idle.py
> 
> from any directory?

No.

You might want to try "python -c 'import idle'", but that's not quite
the same.  Or put a symlink to /usr/local/whatever/Tools/idle/idle.py
on your path.

Cheers,
M.

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