Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!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 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'bug': 0.02; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'ignored': 0.07; 'received:verizon.net': 0.07; 'terry': 0.07; '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; 'broken': 0.12; 'contrary,': 0.16; 'installer,': 0.16; 'posted,': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:installing': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'issue,': 0.18; 'issue.': 0.19; 'slightly': 0.19; 'jan': 0.19; '(which': 0.19; 'later': 0.21; 'subject:not': 0.21; "doesn't": 0.22; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; '64-bit': 0.23; 'fine,': 0.23; 'up.': 0.25; 'windows': 0.26; 'fix': 0.27; 'idle': 0.29; 'fixed': 0.29; 'pm,': 0.29; 'installer': 0.30; 'means,': 0.30; 'version': 0.32; 'does': 0.32; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.33; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'nobody': 0.34; 'showing': 0.34; 'setting': 0.34; 'subject:What': 0.34; 'running': 0.35; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'run': 0.37; 'menu': 0.38; 'steven': 0.38; 'received:org': 0.38; 'either': 0.39; 'should': 0.39; 'else': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'back': 0.62; 'alternative': 0.65; 'due': 0.66; 'show': 0.67; 'revealed': 0.68; 'stated': 0.68; 'confirm': 0.72; 'claim': 0.76; 'associations': 0.84; 'machine,': 0.84; 'worrying': 0.91; 'subject:know': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE. Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:06:24 -0500 References: <4ECBF01A.7060507@yahoo.com> <4ECBF80E.9090003@yahoo.com> <4ecede45$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-74-109-121-73.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <4ecede45$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> 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: 1322183218 news.xs4all.nl 6868 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:36452 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:16186 On 11/24/2011 7:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > As far as I can tell, nobody running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 has > chimed in to either confirm or refute W. eWatson's claim that IDLE > doesn't show up, On the contrary, back when he first posted, I stated that 64-bit Python 3.2.2 on my 64-bit Windows 7 works fine, just as he wants it to. > so we have no way of telling whether it doesn't show up > due to a lack in the installer, or because eWatson has (slightly) broken > his system and has inadvertently prevented it from showing up. I also noted that I had slightly screwed up my previous machine, and the installers never fixed up the deviation. So I gave him a better alternative that I use. He has ignored that and most everything else I posted. When he later revealed that IDLE does not run by any means, that he should fix *that* before worrying about right-clicks. > Fixing the associations is a Windows issue, not a Python issue. Even if > it turns out that the installer does neglect to set up menu commands for > IDLE (which should be reported as a feature request on the bug tracker), The installer for each version has been setting up commands for IDLE for perhaps a decade or more. -- Terry Jan Reedy