Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!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': 0.05; 'python': 0.08; '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; 'shortcut': 0.09; 'target:': 0.09; 'win32': 0.12; 'library': 0.13; 'bieber': 0.16; 'compare.': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'extensions,': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'pythonwin': 0.16; 'received:66.245': 0.16; 'received:dsl.mindspring.com': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'runs.': 0.16; 'subject:installing': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'specifies': 0.18; 'subject:not': 0.21; 'tells': 0.21; 'url:home': 0.21; 'libraries': 0.24; 'expect': 0.26; '(and': 0.28; 'lee': 0.28; 'nov': 0.29; 'keeps': 0.30; '3.x': 0.30; '(the': 0.30; 'usually': 0.31; 'version': 0.32; 'tue,': 0.32; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'mostly': 0.34; 'subject:What': 0.34; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'run': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'python.org': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'download': 0.60; 'organization': 0.60; '2011': 0.61; 'target': 0.63; 'site.': 0.67; 'dennis': 0.73; 'download,': 0.91; 'subject:know': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:01:41 -0800 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: 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: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1321984915 news.xs4all.nl 6989 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54221 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:16082 On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:57:30 -0800, "W. eWatson" declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > All of the above use ActiveState. I use whatever the Python organization > provides on their download site. I would not expect the two to compare. > Which is mostly a repackaged version of the Python.org download, usually with a few added libraries (the Win32 extensions, for windows, along with the PythonWin editor). > > c:\Python32 Start in, and for Target: Python 3.2.2 (64-bit) Which tells me that the TARGET field is garbaged, since THAT is what specifies the program (and arguments) that has to be run when the shortcut is double-clicked. Try editing the target field to read (presuming the 3.x branch of Python keeps the same library structure): c:\python32\lib\idlelib\idle.bat save the change, and then select the short-cut to see if it runs. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/