Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Meyer Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:45:41 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4ECC6C65.2090902@yahoo.com> References: <4ECBF01A.7060507@yahoo.com> <4ECBF80E.9090003@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cXfoUdE2tOmL54C/tFXK/Q"; logging-data="27389"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19pI0YKyd/O2+WZM3+nNRxt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:hWA1atQF7fH7FLi83PSqAAR/Mjo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:16092 On 11/22/2011 3:05 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:29:18 -0500, Alan Meyer > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> On 11/22/2011 1:55 PM, Alan Meyer wrote: >> ... >>> 6. Select, or navigate to and select, the python IDLE interpreter. >> ... >> On my system that's >> C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\Pythonwin.exe >> > Note that this is not the Tk based IDLE (which is implemented, > itself, as a .pyw file and is not natively executable -- which seems to > be one of the problems; Win7 has removed the detailed file type > association windows so you can't specify that the "application" is > pythonw.exe running idle.pyw using one's selected file as the argument > to the mess). Bummer! Sorry W.eWatson, my instructions may not work. I've got the ActiveState Python on my Windows machine. It runs a .exe file as the IDLE executable. If your implementation doesn't have an exe then you're going to have to do some more complex work. Since I don't have the version of Python from python.org under Windows, I can't really advise on what to do with that. If you haven't got an exe, my instructions will only work if you install the ActiveState version, which does have one. Alan