[Tutor] help with getting python to run from command prompt onWindows XP

[Alan Gauld]

"Brian van den Broek" <broek at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote

> The (recognized by me as) relevant bits of output are:
> Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program 
> Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32;C:\Python26
> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH

That looks OK. Puzzling!

Scraping the barrel here but he is definitely using a command prompt 
to
type the command?  ie He is not using Start->Run?
The latter has a different registry based, way of determining the 
path.

Otherwise I'm baffled!

Alan G