[Tutor] Wrestling with the Py2exe Install, Win7[XP!], Py2.5

[Wayne Watson]

I suppose I'm in an interesting situation with regard to Win cmd prompt. 
I did this work on XP.  There the facility is a bit more constraining 
than Win7 on my new PC.  On XP, I do not have name completion w/o 
setting something. I only recently started with cmd prompt again. In 
Win7, it's automatic.  There are other differences.  An oddity, to  me 
at least, name completion in W7 does not halt at the first difference. 
It goes all the way to completion at the first file that it can find, I 
think. I have to back up and try again.

I think today will end my use of Python on XP. I have all files on Win7 
now. I'll likely test py3exe there today to see how it behaves.

What you say about the path change makes sense, but it's unfortunate the 
producers of py2exe haven't given some insight into this and the misc 
files produced in the dist folder. Of course, I have not Googled much at 
all on any of this. I'm glad I finally worked my way to this facility. 
It should help a good deal on the distribution of my demos to non-python 
friends, and fellow project workers at far flung places from here.

On 2/19/2010 11:44 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Wayne Watson" <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote
>> pylab_scatter.exe. Interestingly, if I fire it up from the Win 
>> folder, a dos-window appears and it dies. A few lines appear too 
>> quickly to read. If I execute it from the command prompt, it works 
>> fine. Still the mystery to me is why I don't need to add exe in the 
>> cmd prompt to execute it.
>
> DOS(*) automatically looks for executable file extensions (exe,com, 
> bat etc)
> so you don't need to type them. You don't type cmd.exe to start a DOS
> shell do you? You only type cmd... I hope!
>
> (*)Actually the Windows command processor CMD.EXE
>
>> Further, how did it know to look in the dist folder?
>
> Thats more interesting!
> It presumably added dist to the PATH environment variable. Not
> the Python path the DOS one - after all the EXE is not a python
> program any more its an exe file running under DOS.
>
>>  I have a  comment about the tutorial.
>> The command line shown a few lines into section 3. does not need 
>> python in the line in my case. setup.py py2exe works.
>
> That only works because you have the file asociation set to
> recognise .py files as associated with the interpreter.  Using python
> explicitly removes that potential trip wire and so for a tutorial writer
> makes it a much safer option.
>
> HTH,
>

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