Problems with distutils

[josh001]

Hello I have a slight problem with distutils.
Apparently I'm supposed to write my setup script which I have,
and then enter...

python setup.py build

in the command prompt but when I do that it just says.

'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

The question is what should I write in the command prompt window?

[kaarthikeyapreyan]

The problem is not with your distutils, Windows is not able to find the path of your python executable
please set your PYTHONPATH environment variable to point to your python installation folder

[jlm699]

Alternately you could do
<full path to python.exe>\python.exe setup.py build

[josh001]

I put the python directory in the Pythonpath variable.
But it still does not work.
I think the problem is the DOS/Command prompt does not recognize python as a command.
is there a command that I should use before writing...
python setup.py build
???

[jlm699]

As per my last post: on my windows box I would enter the following

C:\Python24\python.exe setup.py build

Since I was fed up with that I added C:\Python24\ to my %PATH% variable permanently. So now I would only need
python setup.py build

Try typing this into cmd: echo %PATH%
That will show you everything that's in your path variable