[Tutor] trouble using 2to3.py

[Richard D. Moores]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 05:30, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> wrote:
> (Erasing entire history, since you both top-posted, and it's too confusing)
>
> When you run a xxx.py on Windows, it locates the python.exe using the
> registry entries set up by  assoc and ftype.  But when you run "python" it
> looks for python.exe (or python.bat, or ...) on the PATH.  So there's not
> necessarily any conection between your tests.  You're probably running two
> different versions.
>
> Easiest way to know which python is being used is to run it same way:
>
> e:\python31\temp> python 2to3.py -w mycalc.py
>
> Or the way I do it, have python31.bat and python26.bat, which launch the
> exact pythons that I want.

Thanks, Dave. I'm not familiar with .bat files. Could you give me a
look at one of them?

Dick