Running python in Sublime Text 2 getting error

Question

so I have recently gotten into python and I use sublime text 2 alot for things like HTML and CSS and I want to use it for python too but when i try to compile with it I get the following error:

[Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified [cmd: [u'python', u'-u', u'C:\\\\Users\\\\User\\\\AppData\\\\Roaming\\\\Sublime Text 2\\\\Projects\\\\All Python Coding stuff\\\\Sublime Testing.py']] [dir: C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Roaming\\Sublime Text 2\\Projects\\All Python Coding stuff] [path: C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Windows Live;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Windows Live;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AMD APP\\bin\\x86_64;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AMD APP\\bin\\x86;C:\\Windows\\system32;C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ATI Technologies\\ATI.ACE\\Core-Static;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Live\\Shared;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Panda Security\\WaAgent\\Common;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\QuickTime\\QTSystem\\;C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.7.0_51\\bin] [Finished]

I have changed the build system to python and I have restarted and even installed python again. When I run a python script in IDLE it works fine.

Edit 1.

So now i get the error:

[Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified [cmd: [u'python', u'-u', u'C:\\\\Users\\\\Weber\\\\AppData\\\\Roaming\\\\Sublime Text 2\\\\Projects\\\\All Python Coding stuff\\\\Sublime Testing.py']] [dir: C:\\Users\\Weber\\AppData\\Roaming\\Sublime Text 2\\Projects\\All Python Coding stuff] [path: /usr/local/bin] [Finished]

my `python.sublime-build' looks like this:

{
"cmd": ["python", "-u", "$file"],
"file_regex": "^[ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
"selector": "source.python"
}

Answer 1

You need to add the python directory to your system's path environment variabe. To do that in windows you need go to Control Panel> System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings> in the advanced tab go to Environment Variables . In the environment variables in the System Variables area scroll down until you find Path . Select it and press Edit . Then a window should appear titled Edit System Variable where you have the variable name (should be path) and the variable value which is a long string. At the start of the string you need to manually add the python's directory. For example my python 2.7 directory is at * C:\\Python27* So you need to add C:\\Python27\\ at the start of the string. So after you do that the value should now look something like that:

C:\\Python27\\;C:\\Program Files etc..

Try that and tell us the results :)

Hope that helped

Cheers, Alex

Answer 2

It happens for the reason that the cmd starts at "C:\\Users\\YOU". You have to "say" the complete path. I send the args "-u" and the my file's url directly to the python.exe.

Try it:

{
"cmd": ["C:\\Python27\\python.exe", "-u", "$file"],
"file_regex": "^[ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
"selector": "source.python"
}

Obs: I'm using Python 2.7 and its executable file is in C:\\Python27\\ folder.