Re: Repair??

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Repair??
Date	2016-04-09 15:01 -0400
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On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:23:12 -0400, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>> When I first downloaded it, it said "run", so I clicked that and it
>brought me to a screen that gave me an option to modify, repair, or
>uninstall.. I tried to repair it several times, but every time I ran it,
>the same screen opened up. I also tried to run it by just using the
>shortcut. That might be the problem, but I'm not really sure, to be
>honest

	What said "run"?

	The above description sounds very much like you are clicking on the
Python INSTALLER file. Modify/Repair/Uninstall is the normal behavior of an
installer when it finds the program is already installed.

	Python does not have a clickable icon -- it is a command line language
processor.

	IDLE -- which is an IDE written in Python using Tk, might have an icon.
I don't use IDLE -- since I install the ActiveState Python builds and they
include, on Windows, the PythonWin IDE. But even that has to be located by
hand, as shortcuts are not created (or if they were, I deleted the normal
one as I don't find any in the start menu -- except the one I locked to it
by hand)

	Look at your START/All Programs menu (for Win7, at least), for an entry
with Python in it; expand that entry and see what is inside it. If there is
no entry, I'd have to assume the installer isn't creating start menu
entries.
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