I'm not a great coder, in fact I'm just trying to learn, but I can't get Geany to regonise Python in my system (Windows 7) when I try to execute the program. When I click Execute, it opens a command prompt saying:
'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
How can I fix this?
Add the Python executable to your PATH. For example, I have Python installed at:
C:\Program Files\Python 3.2
So press Win + Pause/Break, and go to "Advanced System Settings":
Click "Environment Variables" at the bottom, add a new user variable called PYTHONDIR, and set it to your Python installation directory:
Then, look for another variable there called PATH. If there isn't one, create one and give it the value %PYTHONDIR%; otherwise, append ;%PYTHONDIR to the existing one. It should work fine now.
Or you can skip the New User Variable. Find the PATH variable and click Edit. You want to add ;C:\Python27 to the end of that string. Save your change.
I had the same problem and found that setting the path as described in the other prior posts was necessary but not sufficient. In my case, I had saved my script to the "geany" directory. It turns out that there was a permissions problem with the geany editor trying to create a temporary file in the geany folder. As soon as I saved my script to another folder the permissions error went away.
I faced this issue. Added python to PATH, working fine on cmd. But Geany wasn't able to execute. Turns out, while saving the file, I had not entered .py as extension. Once I did it, worked fine.
