Hello, I have a real newbie question here. New to Python, and am trying to learn it on Mac and WinXP.
On the Mac I find Python already installed and I downloaded the package. I tested the version in Terminal by typing 'python' and get Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20). - Looks fine to me. On WinXP I open a command line and type 'python' and get 'PYTHON' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. So I downloaded the Python 2.4.2 install package and installed it in XP. I go to a command line prompt and type 'python' and still get the error. - not good. However if I execute the python.exe as found in the download folder I get python in a command line looking window. But not at the regular c prompt. If I drag the python.exe to the command line C:\DOCUME~1\THOMAS~1> it then gives me the correct 2.4.2 info. I expected after the install that at the regular prompt I could type 'python' and it would show up like on the mac side. Is this normal or did I do something wrong during install? Any newbie help is appreciated, Tom Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lazy River Software™ - http://www.lazyriversoftware.com Lazy River Metal Art™ - http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/metal.html Meeting Wear™ - http://www.cafepress.com/meetingwear Semantic Compaction Systems - http://www.minspeak.com SCIconics, LLC - http://www.sciconics.com/sciindex.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list