pybot is not recognized as an internal or external command while running from cmd

Question

I get an issue when running the following command, in cmd:

pybot --version

Also given the correct environmental variable path

Answer 1

Given that downgrading to RF 3.0.2 solved the issue you have possibly had RF 3.1 installed previously. In RF 3.1 old start-up scripts like pybot are removed and it is a backwards incompatible change in RF 3.1.

You can check the release notes.

Old start-up scripts like pybot are removed

Old start-up scripts pybot, jybot, ipybot, jyrebot and ipyrebot have been removed in favor of the generic robot and rebot scripts introduced in Robot Framework 3.0. (#2818)

Answer 2

If you are using newer robotframework (like 3.1) and you really want to have an alias for robot (maybe because using some test runner like the one in RIDE), you can create the file pybot.batat C:\Python27\Scripts with the following content: @echo off python -m robot %*