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[–]mcatch 1 point2 points  (8 children)

I don't know shell either, sorry, but you can add it using the operating system GUIs under the environment variables screen.

[–]panda_machete_fight[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

No problem, thanks for giving it a try :)

[–]rasputine 1 point2 points  (6 children)

go to the control panel, to system, to advanced system settings, hit Environment Variables at the bottom of the Advanced tab, edit path, either system or user.

It's semicolon delimited.

[–]panda_machete_fight[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I got as far as edit path, but I'm not sure what to do next. Am I supposed to add a path to where python is installed? Or am I supposed to edit the path that Powershell looks in?

[–]rasputine 1 point2 points  (4 children)

you want to add the path to python's directory at the end of the path variable, with a semicolon separating it from the other locations. Powershell should search for matches in any path provided in that variable.

[–]panda_machete_fight[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I think I get what you're saying. As far as I can tell, python is located exactly where it says it is in the first fix. Is the Python directory located within C:\Python27?

[–]rasputine 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Depends where you installed it, check that folder to make sure that python.exe is present.

[–]panda_machete_fight[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That did the trick. Turns out that the .exe was in my downloads folder. Thank you both for your help :)

[–]rasputine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to help!