Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!amsnews11.chello.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'suggesting': 0.07; 'python': 0.08; 'scripts': 0.09; 'prevents': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; '.py': 0.16; 'bieber': 0.16; 'bizarre': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'received:66.245': 0.16; 'received:dsl.mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'meant': 0.16; 'url:home': 0.21; 'maybe': 0.21; 'somehow': 0.23; 'lee': 0.28; 'modify': 0.28; 'script': 0.28; 'idle': 0.28; 'subject:same': 0.30; 'nov': 0.31; 'changes': 0.32; 'does': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.32; 'there': 0.33; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.33; 'install': 0.34; 'executable': 0.34; 'fri,': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'menu': 0.38; 'open': 0.38; 'run': 0.38; 'put': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'window': 0.38; 'should': 0.39; "it's": 0.39; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'did': 0.40; '2011': 0.62; 'dennis': 0.77; 'environment;': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Both Python 2.5.2 and 2.7.2 flop the same way under Win 7 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:17:18 -0800 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <4ec5a5cf$0$29967$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <9in3r9F5j3U2@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user-11fb5l5.dsl.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1321665451 news.xs4all.nl 6971 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57497 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:15923 On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:45:26 -0800, "W. eWatson" declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > So pythonw.exe and idle.pyw are not scripts but somehow can fire up idle? > All .py and .pyw are scripts (.pyw is a "code" that this script should NOT open a standard console window). pythonw.exe is the python executable that is meant to be used to run .pyw scripts (python.exe is the default for .py files, and will create a console window if it can not find stdin/stdout/stderr from its own environment; pythonw.exe does not open a console window regardless) > Are you suggesting I modify my registry? I still find it bizarre the > install did not put it IDLE choice on the menu for py. It's there on XP. Who can say? Maybe M$ security prevents some of those registry changes from sticking... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/