Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Repair?? Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 15:01:51 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <851t6f60c8.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <1460215392.3798111.573742689.11DE226C@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de KbXGHz/s7lBNwKT1gBSKVACc7LkbvNYGU44zDt0xyeqQ== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'installed.': 0.05; 'icon': 0.09; 'ide': 0.09; 'it;': 0.09; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'assume': 0.11; 'times,': 0.13; '2016': 0.16; 'clickable': 0.16; 'entries.': 0.16; 'modify,': 0.16; 'pythonwin': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'url:home': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; 'file.': 0.22; '(or': 0.23; 'sat,': 0.23; 'tried': 0.24; 'downloaded': 0.24; 'written': 0.24; 'install': 0.25; 'command': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'clicked': 0.29; 'finds': 0.29; 'repair': 0.29; 'sure,': 0.29; 'windows,': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'creating': 0.30; "i'd": 0.31; 'entry': 0.31; 'option': 0.31; 'up.': 0.32; 'screen': 0.32; 'run': 0.33; 'builds': 0.33; 'idle': 0.33; '(for': 0.34; 'except': 0.34; "isn't": 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'located': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'created': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'several': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'behavior': 0.61; 'programs': 0.62; 'clicking': 0.75; 'sounds': 0.76; 'entry,': 0.84; 'processor.': 0.84; 'were,': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'hand,': 0.97 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-73-119-234.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <851t6f60c8.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <1460215392.3798111.573742689.11DE226C@webmail.messagingengine.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106753 On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:23:12 -0400, Random832 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. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/