[Tutor] getting python 3 to run from the command line

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sat Nov 14 14:07:17 CET 2009


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Khalid Al-Ghamdi <emailkgnow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> for some reason I haven't been able to get python 3 to work from the the
> command line. I've added it to the the path in the the system variables but
> still no luck. when I try to run python 2.6 it works flawlessly, though,
> bearing in mind that it wasn't added to the system variables!
> i'm running windows vista and have python 30 ,31 and 26 installed.
> all of this , by the way, was just to get easy install to work so i can get
> nose working to do some practice of unit testing!

I don't think setuptools supports Python 3. There is a fork of
setuptools called distribute that does support Python 3.

Kent


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