anaconda - path environment variable in windows

Instead of giving the path following way:

C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\python.exe

Do this:

C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\

C:\Users\\Anaconda3

I just added above path , to my path environment variables and it worked. Now, all we have to do is to move to the .py script location directory, open the cmd with that location and run to see the output.

it turns out I was mistaken.

Solution is: in anaconda (as well as in other implementations), set the path environment variable to the directory where 'python.exe' is installed.

As a default, the python.exe file in anaconda is in:

c:\.....\anaconda

after you do that, obviously, the python command works, in my case, yielding the following.

python
Python 3.4.3 |Anaconda 2.2.0. (64|bit)|(default, Nov 7 2015), etc, etc

The default location for python.exe should be here: c:\users\xxx\anaconda3 One solution to find where it is, is to open the Anaconda Prompt then execute:

> where python

This will return the absolute path of locations of python eg:

(base) C:\>where python
C:\Users\Chad\Anaconda3\python.exe
C:\ProgramData\Miniconda2\python.exe
C:\dev\Python27\python.exe
C:\dev\Python34\python.exe