Re: Getting Octave to use Anaconda Python Environment

[Colin Macdonald]

On 18/04/16 17:00, Ben Abbott wrote:
> I like the autoconf support. They allowed me to determine what
> depedencies were missing. The only problem for me was how to define
> $PYTHON. Can you modify configure to grab $PYTHON from the shell
> environment?
> 
> setenv PYTON python2.7
> system ./configure

This sounds like a good idea.  At run-time, we would need to support
that variable too, which could be useful.

*But* is $PYTHON env variable a standard thing?!

I didn't see it here:
https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html

Do you have a reference?

thanks,
Colin