I want to able to open a command prompt at the folder which contains a python script and just type in the script name without the .py and watch it run.
Following the various tips on google to do this, I do:
What should happen is the python.exe should be added to the 'Open With' pop up, but it is not? I re try with the python.exe off my path. Same problem.
Note every time I set a path it is in the control panel. Version of python is 2.7. And to make things stranger, I can associate .py programs with pythonw - but this is no use, as I want the console.
Any help appreciated.
Answer. Answer: In script mode, You write your code in a text file then save it with a . py extension which stands for "Python".
Add .PY to PATHEXT as noted before
Then do:
assoc .py=Python.File
ftype Python.File=c:\Python27\python.exe "%1" %*
Adding python to the path isn't necessary to execute the script in a command prompt or double clicking in Explorer, only if you want to start an interactive python session or running the script with python yourscript.py
See http://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html for more details.
Modify the PATHEXT
variable to include Python scripts. For example, here's mine:
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC;.PY
You can do this every time you open a command console, or just modify your user global environment variables so that every instance of cmd.exe will include it.
I was able to get it done using this application http://defaultprogramseditor.com/
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