Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!feeder.erje.net!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; ':-)': 0.06; 'count.': 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; '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; 'pythonwin': 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; 'wed,': 0.17; 'subject:not': 0.21; 'url:home': 0.21; 'opens': 0.23; 'lee': 0.28; 'script': 0.28; 'idle': 0.29; 'nov': 0.29; "i'll": 0.31; "isn't": 0.33; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.34; 'subject:What': 0.34; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'charset :us-ascii': 0.37; 'but': 0.37; 'run': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; '2011': 0.61; 'glad': 0.68; 'dennis': 0.73; '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: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:21:46 -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: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1322072710 news.xs4all.nl 6913 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53556 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:16123 On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:33:55 -0800, "W. eWatson" declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > Glad to hear you're keeping count. :-) I'll pin it on my wall. Don't use > graphics. But IDLE does... IDLE is a .pyw script that opens Tk windows; it isn't even a ".exe" packaged program as is the PythonWin editor (pythonwin.exe will run as an application; IDLE needs to start pythonw.exe as the application and let /it/ run the idle.pyw script) -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/