Question

I have notepad++ installed on win7, and have installed the notepad++ exec plugin. Whenever I execute the .py script I am running, i get the following error:

C:/Python27/python.exe ""
Process started >>>
C:\Python27\python.exe: can't find '__main__' module in ''
<<< Process finished.
================ READY ================

My index.py script is as follows:

text = "Hello World"
print text

The Notepad++ execute script (F6) is as follows:

C:/Python27/python.exe "$(C:/Python27/python.exe)"

This is the correct path to python.exe on my system. In the windows environmental variables, I have also added this to the PATH. Also, I have booted up the python.exe command prompt and have gotten the script to work by manually typing it in. I have done a directory search of C:/Python27, and the main.py file exists.

What is going on that is wrong here? Why can’t python find the __ main __ module??

EDIT:

Nevermind this, I’m an idiot.

So I had misinterpreted the setup for the notepad++ exec (F6) script:

C:/Python27/python.exe "$(C:/Python27/python.exe)"

It should have been this instead:

C:/Python27/python.exe "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"

Of course it couldn’t find the main.py file because it wasn’t going to FULL_CURRENT_PATH.
Carry on.

Answer 1

Basically, it’s because the 1st argument in your script has been missinterpreted.
That is to say, with the code

C:/python27/python.exe "$(C:/python27/python.exe)"

You’re doing something roughly equivalent

C:/python27/python.exe 

What you need to use is:

C:/Python27/python.exe "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"

Note: Don’t substitute “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)” for something else – put that in verbatim – it’s a predefined variable of the NppExec plugin. It may be considered shorthand for the full-path of the file in the currently open tab.

When I execute the script above (on a file called tmp.py, in my c:\xampp\htdocs\enhzflep folder), I get this displayed in the console:

C:/Python27/python.exe “C:\xampp\htdocs\enhzflep\tmp.py”
CreateProcess() failed with error code 2: The system cannot find the
file specified.

Which is just fine, since I don’t have python installed on this machine. 🙂

EDIT: Just saw your edit. It seems I’m the greater fool!