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#38 Setting py-python-command after M-x py-shell doesn't work
If I do M-x py-shell, I get an error:
"Searching for program: no such file or directory, python"
That's ok, I just need to set `py-python-command', right?
(setq py-python-command "c:/python24/python.exe")
Then I do M-x py-shell again, I get the same error message:
"Searching for program: no such file or directory, python"
Why didn't setting py-python-command work?
However, if I switch to another buffer, (actually a
buffer in which I haven't tried M-x py-shell before
setting `py-python-command') M-x py-shell will now work.
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There's a buffer-local variable "py-which-shell," which is
used to record what shell command you're using (and
also "py-which-args"); this gets initialized the first
time you run py-shell. It appears that the reasoning
behind this has to do with toggling between cpython and
jython, but it's not entirely clear to me from looking at
the code.
One way to make things a little more user friendly would
be to add an initializer function to the defcustom that
defines py-python-command, that calls "(py-toggle-
shells 'cpython)"; but in your case, that wouldn't have
helped, since you directly modified py-python-command
using setq, rather than customize-variable.
If you just want to get things working in that one buffer,
the following should work:
(setq py-python-command "c:/python24/python.exe")
(py-toggle-shells 'cpython)
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There's a buffer-local variable "py-which-shell," which is
used to record what shell command you're using (and
also "py-which-args"); this gets initialized the first
time you run py-shell. It appears that the reasoning
behind this has to do with toggling between cpython and
jython, but it's not entirely clear to me from looking at
the code.
One way to make things a little more user friendly would
be to add an initializer function to the defcustom that
defines py-python-command, that calls "(py-toggle-
shells 'cpython)"; but in your case, that wouldn't have
helped, since you directly modified py-python-command
using setq, rather than customize-variable.
If you just want to get things working in that one buffer,
the following should work:
(setq py-python-command "c:/python24/python.exe")
(py-toggle-shells 'cpython)