Hello I'm trying to write a PowerShell script to execute python files. I want to get PowerShell to launch python.exe while using the username environment variable in the filepath to python.exe (this is so my colleague and I can run the PowerShell script interchangeably without worrying about our usernames, and we'd like to avoid uninstalling and reinstalling Python to C:\Python - we just ran with the default installation directory that is in our user profiles).
Here is what works in PowerShell to launch Python: C:\Users\myusername\Anaconda3\python.exe
However it does not work when I use this: C:\Users\$env:UserName\Anaconda3\python.exe
Here is the error message below:
The term 'C:\Users\$env:UserName\Anaconda3\python.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1
C:\Users\$env:UserName\Anaconda3\python.exe
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+ CategoryInfo: ObjectNotFound: (C:\Users\$env:U...nda3\python.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId: CommandNotFoundException
I'm not very well versed in PowerShell yet and so far in my reading I haven't been able to figure out why this doesn't work. Can someone shed some insight on this? Would very much appreciate any assistance.
