UPDATING PYTHON TO USE LATEST VERSION OF JAVA?

[nicklesprout]

the first two things in my path variable are:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_141\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;

like i said, running java works fine for 1.8, i have no clue why python is showing 1.7...

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to be more specific, i am running a python script which calls my java Class using POPEN. when i run it, it gives me:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: TestClass : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(Unknown Source)
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but when i run the 'java TestClass' in the same cmd prompt, it runs fine.