Re: Windows registry, Python, and LilyPond

[Tim Roberts]

Frederick Bartlett <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Oh, sorry! 2.16.2
>
> I have since found that I can run python scripts from the command line
> by typing, say,
>   python myscript.py
>
> While just typing
>   myscript
> produces an error, even though the Windows file association has been
> set to c:\Python27\python.exe.

The file association lets you type
    myscript.py

If you want to be able to type "myscript", you need to add .py to the
list of "automatic" extensions.  That is stored in the PATHEXT
environment variable:
    set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.py;.pyw

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Tim Roberts, address@hidden
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.