pretty much the title

asking bc i am installing python and i wanna know what will happen if i don't really click on the checkbox

If you forget to add Python to the PATH, you won't be able to run Python in your command line from any other directory.

You will get a message saying,

'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

This is because Windows is trying to search for Python in its PATH variable and is unable to find it.

Here is a step-by-step instruction to add Python to the PATH variable in Windows 10.

1. Copy the directory to which Python is being installed.

2. Search for System Properties in the Search Bar.

3. Click on the "Environment Variables" button in System Properties.

4. Click on the "Path" variable and then click on "Edit".

5. Now here's the deal. Pay Attention! Paste the directory path from Step 1 at the top of the list. You can use the "Move up" button to get it to the top. Now click on "Ok".

Now you can open up your command line and run python. The Python interactive shell will open up.

*Here is a little extra tip! *

Add the Scripts folder to the PATH variable too. This is the folder where all your libraries will be installed.

If the instructions are not clear enough for you, you can also check out the visual guide containing images of every step, on my blog for achieving the above objective.

Good luck and let me know!

yeah, pretty much that.This is because i was having problems to use Scrapy (the term scrapy wasnt recognized in the terminal), and long story short i figured out that the python Scripts folder, which im guessing thats where the pip packages get installed, is not in PATH.

I guess is obvious but i've installed several libraries using pip and ,as you can notice, i dont have much experience in this kind of problems, so i dont have any idea of what things i could mess up by adding the directory to the PATH.

I'm working my way through Automate the Boring Stuff and I'm to the part where I have to consult Appendices A and B in order to install new modules and run Python scripts outside of Mu.

I thought I'd installed Python correctly until I reached this point. I'm getting extremely confused by how I'm "supposed" to install python, configure PATH variables, install modules, etc.

For example, I have "python.exe" located in:

C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39

But I also have "py.exe" located in:

C:\Windows

From what I understand, I have to run commands starting with "python" from the former location and "py" from the latter location. Am I supposed to have two different locations like this or is this redundant? Did I mess up the installation?

I managed to get the mclip.py project working, however now I'm working on the Zombie Dice project and I'm having issues with installing the module all of a sudden.

For example, I opened the cmd prompt, changed my directory to

C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts

and used PIP to install the module. However, when I open Mu and run:

import zombiedice
zombiedice.demo()

...I receive an error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:\users\myname\mu_code\test.py", line 2, in <module>
        import zombiedice
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'zombiedice'

Why isn't Mu recognizing the zombiedice module after I "successfully" installed it earlier?

Also, when I was installing the module, I received a warning that a newer version of PIP was available so I upgraded PIP. After upgrading, it gave me a warning:

WARNING: The scripts pip.exe, pip3.9.exe and pip3.exe are installed in 'C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts' which is not on PATH.

Consider adding this directory to PATH

I don't know why it's giving me this warning when I already have this directory on PATH. When I run "echo %PATH%", the directory appears among the list of directories.

This is all extremely confusing and frustrating, constantly having to spend hours going through files, directories, and commands just to get scripts working.

Are Python files, scripts, projects, directories, modules, etc. all supposed to be scattered all across my computer like this? Can't I just have one neat little folder called "Python" somewhere which contains everything? Or do I really have to keep track of where all of these different things are?

The title just don’t understand what these two things mean. The first option by default has a check mark by it the other (Add Python 3.10 to PATH) does not.

Thanks

Can anyone explain why and how we can give path to python. So that our code works.And what pip actually does.

So I have been using a python script that I found called sherlock, and I love it. I ended up writing a new script that utilizes the Sherlock script to make using it in cmd easier. And recently i have been starting to learn about environment variables, specifically the PATH environment variable. Is there any way that I can add a .py file to the PATH variable so that I can just type "sherlock <usrname>" and have it work? Instead of having to cd to the directory and typing "python3 sherlock.py <usrname>"?

This seems to make very little sense to me as iirc with brew python and pip automatically get added to the path.

Kenneth Reitz says that it's "so that you always have control over which copy of Python is run."

But to me this confuses things for newcomers. Is there a real benefit to not adding pip and python to the Windows PATH?

in the installer, i click add to path, but its not being added because when i type python in cmd its just takes me to store. ive tried to manually add it to path. Any ideas why its not working?linked picture of path variables

I've installed python on 1 computer successfully after hours of reading stackoverflow suggestions, youtube videos, documentation etc. And after getting it on there and working I was so frustrated and lost that I had no idea what actions from which source actually worked.

Can someone walk me through this from step 1 why python never works after running the installer and needs all sorts of pointer adjustments in the PATH variable or X other variable like PYTHON PATH to places I can't even manage to keep track of? More specifically, today with a fresh install, what needs to be done to get python to actually install and be detectable by commands.

I'm obviously new, and mostly illiterate to the command prompt so that's part of my difficulty with going through stack overflow where answers 1 through 5 all do something completely different all in command prompt with various opaque arguments, hidden references, implied actions, implied paths etc.

Hi, I just began working with Python in University and now I wanna set up Python on my home PC which is running Windows 10. I would like to use "Atom" as text editor. The problem is that I cann't run Python scripts. I am getting an error:

Unable to find command: python Are you sure PATH is configured correctly?

I actually don't really know how to configure PATH. I created a new System variable, but I am not sure if it has to have a specific name and which value it's need to have.

I downloaded Python 3.5.2 from the official site: Python

So, does anyone know how to set up Python on Windows 10 correctly?

Do you remember checking the box in the image shown below to add your Python installation to PATH in Windows 10?

Well, I was curious! What if someone accidentally forgot to check that little radio button? What would be the possible recovery steps?

So I spent my evening yesterday uninstalling Python and re-installing to figure out a way to add Python to the PATH post-installation.

If you forget to add Python to the PATH variable, you won't be able to run Python in your command line.

You will get a message saying,

‘python' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

Here are the steps I used to add Python to the PATH variable in Windows 10.

1. Copy the directory to which Python is being installed.

2. Search for System Properties in the Search Bar.

3. Click on the "Environment Variables" button in System Properties.

4. Click on the "Path" variable and then click on "Edit".

5. Now here's the deal. Paste the directory path from Step 1 at the top of the list. You can use the "Move up" button to get it to the top. Now click on "Ok".

I found out that if you paste the path at the end, it still doesn't work. Can someone tell me why?

Anyways, if the steps are not clear to anyone, here is a visual guide containing images of every step, on my blog for achieving the above objective. If you are interested, do take a look.

I installed Miniconda and did not check the "add to PATH" setting because it was not recommended. But now I can't access Anaconda Prompt or load any libraries. So I'm a little bit confused by it was not recommended during the installation?

I'm considering just uninstalling Miniconda and reinstalling it and have the installation add it to PATH since the manual way of doing it is a bit too confusing for me...

Hi all, I'm trying to install some python libraries that I need on my computer (running Kubuntu 22.04.4) and I added to PATH the following:

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/python"

in order to be able to use these packages and I got no problems with it.

When I installed jupyter-lab I got a warning message telling me to add /home/[user]/.local/bin to the PATH but when I add it to my ~/.zshrc file I lose the ability to use any other command (like sudo, apt-get, mkdir and so on)

I really need to use jupyter so if anyone has some ideas please help me

Thank you in advance!

I've often times run these commands blindly: export PYTHONPATH=. or PYTHONPATH=.. but I don't understand what they're doing...?