Running a python script from the command line in Windows

Question

I'm trying to run SnakeFood, to analyze a python project. I'm on a Windows machine and so far I've been able to figure out how to:

• install Tortoise for Mercurial to download the SnakeFood code from the site
• set the windows Path to accept python from the command prompt so I could do python setup.py install and got snakefood to go into my "site-packages" folder

Now, the documentation doesn't say anything else rather than: sfood /path/to/my/project

I can't get this command to work. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Would this work?

python "DriveLetter:\path\to\sfood.py" "DriveLetter:\path\to\your\project"

Answer 2

Considering the documentation says "sfood /path/to/my/project" it most likely assumes a *nix environment. That leads me to the assumption that sfood probably has a shebang line.

On Windows you probably need to use "python sfood ". If "sfood" isn't in your PATH, you'll need to write the full path rather than just "sfood".