Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!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; 'interpreter': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'python': 0.08; 'scripts': 0.09; 'either.': 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; 'files.': 0.09; 'win32': 0.12; 'library': 0.13; 'bieber': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'exited.': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'python.exe': 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; 'wulfraed': 0.16; 'meant': 0.17; "wouldn't": 0.17; 'subject:not': 0.21; 'extension': 0.21; 'url:home': 0.21; 'lee': 0.28; 'version,': 0.28; 'script': 0.28; 'matches': 0.29; 'nov': 0.29; 'i/o': 0.30; 'ran': 0.30; 'least': 0.30; 'installed': 0.31; "didn't": 0.31; 'version': 0.32; 'does': 0.32; 'tue,': 0.32; "won't": 0.33; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.33; 'there': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'subject:What': 0.34; 'something': 0.35; 'supposed': 0.35; 'window': 0.35; 'install': 0.35; 'however,': 0.36; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'open': 0.38; 'using': 0.38; 'received:org': 0.38; 'plain': 0.39; 'python.org': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; '2011': 0.61; 'course,': 0.62; 'nothing.': 0.67; 'dennis': 0.73; 'skip:c 50': 0.77; "dennis'": 0.84; 'packaged': 0.84; '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 22:43:29 -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: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1322030622 news.xs4all.nl 6922 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:50828 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:16095 On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:46:01 -0800, "W. eWatson" declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > Of course, Dennis' > C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\Pythonwin.exe > wouldn't work either. > If you didn't install an ActiveState packaged version, nor hand installed the win32 extension package into a Python.org installed system, you won't have PythonWin. > I did a Win 7 search Pythonwin.exe, and found nothing. However, > sometimes that search fails even when though there is something on the > PC that matches the search. > > There is a pythonw.exe under C:\Python32. And has been mentioned at least three times in the last week -- pythonw.exe is the version of the Python interpreter that is supposed to be the default application for .pyw files. It is the version that does NOT open a console window for stdin/stdout (IOWs, it is meant for use by Python scripts that use a graphical library for all I/O -- Tk, wxPython, etc.). If you ran a graphical script using the plain python.exe it would open a console window that would just sit there until the script exited. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/