Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!amsnews11.chello.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.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; 'interpreter.': 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; 'argument': 0.15; 'bieber': 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; 'subject:installing': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'win7': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '(which': 0.19; 'seems': 0.20; 'subject:not': 0.21; 'url:home': 0.21; 'alan': 0.23; 'itself,': 0.23; "one's": 0.23; 'specify': 0.24; 'windows': 0.26; 'lee': 0.28; 'idle': 0.29; 'nov': 0.29; 'pm,': 0.29; 'navigate': 0.30; 'tue,': 0.32; "can't": 0.32; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'executable': 0.34; 'subject:What': 0.34; 'running': 0.35; 'file': 0.36; '...': 0.36; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'skip:" 10': 0.37; 'using': 0.38; 'received:org': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'type': 0.61; '2011': 0.61; 'association': 0.66; 'selected': 0.68; 'dennis': 0.73; 'skip:c 50': 0.77; '-0500,': 0.84; 'meyer': 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 12:05:49 -0800 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <4ECBF01A.7060507@yahoo.com> <4ECBF80E.9090003@yahoo.com> 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: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1321992362 news.xs4all.nl 6850 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41581 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:16089 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). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/