On Feb 16, 5:52 am, "Endless Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Are you talking about the Environment Variables-->System Variable-- >path? You may want to right click on My Computer-->System Properties-- >Advanced-->Environment Variables-->System variables-->Path-->Edit. And check to see if it's there, if not then add it. Thanks, Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list