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Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE.

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From Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com>
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Subject Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE.
Date Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:55:22 -0500
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On 11/21/2011 11:39 AM, W. eWatson wrote:

> My criterion for success is that it puts IDLE as a choice for editor on
> the menu produced with a right-click on a py file. So far no response on
> this has solved the problem.  ...

I don't know what responses you're referring to since this is the first 
posting in the thread.  It's possible what I'm about to say was already 
told to you - in which case I'm wasting my and everyone's time.

However, leaving that aside, I think that this is trivially easy to 
solve.  It has nothing whatever to do with Python or Idle - though it's 
possible that the Python installer could have done something for that it 
didn't - and it's also possible that the Python installer did what you 
told it to do but you told it the wrong thing, or you told Windows to 
change it without realizing that you did.  (I do that all the time.  A 
mouse slip and inadvertent click on the wrong object, a misunderstanding 
of a prompt, or lots of other missteps can change things without your 
having any idea what happened.)

Anyway, if I understand what you're looking for, here's what you need to 
do to fix your problem:

1. Open Windows Explorer.

2. Navigate to a Python file.

3. Right click on the Python file with the mouse.

4. Select "Open With"

5. Select "Choose Default Program"

6. Select, or navigate to and select, the python IDLE interpreter.

7. Check the box that says "Always use the selected program to open this 
kind of file."

8. Click "OK".

The prompts I described above are the ones I saw on my Windows Server 
2008 machine.  Yours may vary slightly, but I think the procedures 
should be the same.

Please let us know if that solves your problem.

     Alan

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What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-21 08:39 -0800
  Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2011-11-21 17:12 +0000
  Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2011-11-21 17:52 +0000
  Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-21 11:21 -0800
    Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-22 07:57 -0800
      Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-22 10:01 -0800
        Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2011-11-23 14:16 +0200
          Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-23 10:21 -0800
      Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-11-22 17:50 -0500
  Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-11-21 18:07 -0500
    Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-22 08:12 -0800
  Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-11-21 19:00 -0800
    Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-22 08:14 -0800
      Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2011-11-22 19:15 +0000
      Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2011-11-23 23:15 -0700
  Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-22 13:55 -0500
    Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-22 14:29 -0500
      Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-22 12:05 -0800
        Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-22 22:45 -0500
          Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Sibylle Koczian <nulla.epistola@web.de> - 2011-11-23 22:13 +0100
      Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-22 19:29 -0800
        Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-22 19:46 -0800
          Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-22 22:43 -0800
            Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-23 09:33 -0800
              Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-23 09:38 -0800
                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2011-11-23 18:29 +0000
                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-11-24 08:49 +1100
                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-24 13:24 -0800
                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-23 17:29 -0500
                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Matt Joiner <anacrolix@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 09:58 +1100
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                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. "W. eWatson" <wolftracks@invalid.com> - 2011-11-24 13:22 -0800
                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> - 2011-11-25 00:18 +0100
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                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-24 20:49 -0800
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                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Mark Tolonen <metolone@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 20:26 -0800
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                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. MaxTheMouse <maxthemouse@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-26 08:22 -0800
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                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-23 17:43 -0800
                Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2011-11-24 17:25 -0600
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