[Tutor] Runs in IDLE with F5, but not in Windows Command Prompt

[eryksun]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:36 PM, eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> .py files need to be associated with %windir%\py.exe.
>
>
> NO!
>
> %windir% means "the directory where Windows is installed", usually (but not
> always) C:\Windows.  You're saying that there needs to be a py.exe in the
> Windows directory - this is absolutely not true.  You might have it set up
> that way on your machine, but it's not standard and absolutely not
> recommended.
>
> To the original poster: please disregard.

boB has 3.3.1 installed. The official Windows installer for 3.3
installs the new pylauncher to %windir%. It doesn't give you an option
to do otherwise. Have you read PEP 397? Have you installed 3.3 on
Windows?

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397