cant use certain commands, leading to more problems
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Apr 28 10:18:23 EDT 2021
On 4/28/2021 10:09 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 4/28/21 4:00 AM, Rasig Kosonmontri wrote:
>> so i heard that the microsoft store's version of python tends to hide
>> itself. and so i uninstalled it
>> but when i typed in to a powershell it just directs me to the
>> mircrosoft store's page
>> i then disabled it from doing that and install python from python.org
>> myself
>> but for some weird reason this time it doesnt work at all, 'python' is
>> somehow not recognized as a cmdlet, bash or command. this also happens with
>> gitbash and cmd
>
> If you installed Python from an installer from python.org, did you tell
> it to put itself into your system PATH? If not, try manually adding the
> bin folder where it installed to to your system path.
Or check the option to install the py launcher and use that. No need to
fuss with PATH.
>py # run interactive python
>py filename.py # run python with that file
>py -m module # run module as a command
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Terry Jan Reedy
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