Pylab Fails with Runtime Error on Win XP Under Python 2.4

[W. eWatson]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:07:57 -0700, "W. eWatson"
> <notvalid2 at sbcglobal.net> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
> 
>> I worked my way into the folder where the py program is, but couldn't 
>> executed. Just entering aprog.py, run aprog.py or exec aprog.py didn't work.
> 
> 	Try:
> 		python aprog.py
> 
> 	If that doesn't work, you'll need to check your environment variable
> PATH to make sure the directory with the python interpreter is on it...
> (I've added spaces and/or newlines after the ; to make for easier
> reading)
> 
> Path=E:\Python24\; E:\GNAT\2008\bin; C:\WINDOWS\system32; C:\WINDOWS;
> C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem; C:\Program Files\SciTE; 
> C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin; 
> C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin; 
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL; C:\Tcl\bin;
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\DLLShared\;
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;
> C:\PROGRA~1\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin;
> C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin; E:\GNAT\GtkAda\bin; C:\MSSQL7\BINN;
> c:\PROGRA~1\sdb\programs\bin; c:\PROGRA~1\sdb\programs\pgm; c:\Regina;
> e:\Python24\Scripts
> 
> 	It IS possible to set an association so that *.py will invoke python
> as the processor. Part of is the environment variable pathext...
> 
> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.pyw;.py;.pyo;.pyc;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.tcl
> 
> But I think something else was required... Ah
> 
> FTYPE Python.File="E:\Python24\python.exe" "%1" %*
> 
> 	
I entered at the H:\......\python_dev\ prompt
FTYPE Python.File="C:\Python24\python.exe" aprog.py
but nothing happened. Nothing at all in the console window other than it 
still shows the folder path in the prompt. Well not quite. It just responded 
with python.exe" aprog.py.

Is there some way to copy in and out of the console. A copy/paste seems to 
get nowhere.

It's odd that I cannot widen the console window. It shows <---> when I grab 
a side.

Maybe I'll compile the code, as suggested by a poster above. I don't think 
IDLE will do that, but I can probably find something that will.

Ah, I found py2exe and installed it. It shows up nowhere in my Start->All 
Programs. It may be in the list under Python. I see a command line entry off 
that men. I don't think it was there. Off for more exploring.


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