Python + windows

[Bruce Dawson]

Note that the restrictions on PATH length are a non-issue with NT, Win2K
and WinXP. Thus, they should be a non-issue for most programmers, and
in a few years they should be a non-issue for most users also.

calder wrote:

> ny_r_marquez at yahoo.com (R.Marquez) wrote:
> >I have often wondered why is it that the Windows installer doesn't
> >just add Python to the PATH to begin with.  Does any one know why?
> >
> >-Ruben
>
> Maybe because of a very restricted space for the enviornment data under DOS
> (PATH is still a DOS variable, although Winblows can make a use of it). Or
> maybe to aviod confusion, since if there are by any chance a few executables
> bearing the same name, and they all are in the PATH, only the first one is run.
> Or maybe for both reasons :-)
>
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