My last version of Python was 2.4, running smoothly on XP with path c: \Python24 - no need even to include this path in PATH; everything worked as it's supposed to at the command line.
Just installed Python 2.5, after uninstalling 2.4 (and also 2.3 which had lingered). Now if I open a shell in Windows Python is not available! Here are the symptoms: - If I open a shell using "Command line here" with XP Powertools, then enter "python" at the prompt, nothing happens. I don't get a message that the command is not recognized, but neither do I get the Python prompt. Instead the Windows prompt comes back. No messages, no Python, no nothing. - If I go so far as to specify the full path to the Python executable, I do get the Python prompt and Python appears to work properly - except that I can't exit with CTRL-Z. - If I open a shell from the Start menu, e.g. Start > run "command", then try entering "python", the shell simply blows up. What is going on here? I have uninstalled and reinstalled Python 2.5, to no avail. I have gone so far as to specify c:\Python25 (the install path) in my PATH variable, but this makes no difference. Right now Python is unusable to me from the command prompt, meaning all of my automation scripts that I run at the command line are gone too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
