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29 January 2021 at 7:34 pm
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Hi William
I’m afraid this doesn’t work as expected. I’ve added the python path to the sytem path environment variable (n.b NOT the user path):
You would now expect ‘python’ to be iniversally resolved to the python path. However,these two examples show the result:
In the first attempt, typing ‘python’ gives you some speil about the MS app store.
In the second example, where we start from the anaconda3 sub-directory, it behaves as you would expect.
I have not tried to install HOPS again as I think the bahaviour may be strange.
Any ideas plese?
Gordon