Re: [Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread Wayne
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:39 AM, David Eric cii...@gmail.com wrote: Very new to python..getting accustomed to files, directories etc I installed a few versions of python and ended up with a very long PATH variable, do i need this or can i change it to something shorter? Doing an online

[Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread David Eric
Very new to python..getting accustomed to files, directories etc I installed a few versions of python and ended up with a very long PATH variable, do i need this or can i change it to something shorter? Doing an online tutorial one exercise was to move a simple program, helloworld into the PATH so

Re: [Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:39 AM, David Eric cii...@gmail.com wrote: Very new to python..getting accustomed to files, directories etc I installed a few versions of python and ended up with a very long PATH variable, do i need this or can i change it to something shorter? Doing an online

Re: [Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:07 PM, David Eric cii...@gmail.com wrote: Do i need to do anything now that the issue was resolved? How did you resolve it? If you copied your program into one of the existing directories on PATH, you probably want to delete it when you are done with the exercise. If

Re: [Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread Wayne
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM, David Eric cii...@gmail.com wrote: ok this is really weird . . . i tried running the helloworld again, and it doesnt work :/ DTm:~ davidteboul$ echo $PATH PATH$/Library/Frameworks/

Re: [Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread Martin Walsh
Wayne wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM, David Eric cii...@gmail.com mailto:cii...@gmail.com wrote: ok this is really weird . . . i tried running the helloworld again, and it doesnt work :/ DTm:~ davidteboul$ echo $PATH PATH$/Library/Frameworks/

Re: [Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM, David Eric cii...@gmail.com wrote: ok this is really weird . . . i tried running the helloworld again, and it doesnt work :/ DTm:~ davidteboul$ echo $PATH PATH$/Library/Frameworks/

Re: [Tutor] Confusion with $PATH

2009-09-25 Thread Alan Gauld
David Eric cii...@gmail.com wrote I installed a few versions of python and ended up with a very long PATH Leave it be. Long paths will not cause a proble,m. FWIW My Path is at least twice as long as that! :-) windowi moved it into /Library and says file not found.. any advice? Move