Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'specific.': 0.09; 'worked.': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'windows': 0.15; 'cmd': 0.16; 'from:addr:timgolden.me.uk': 0.16; 'from:name:tim golden': 0.16; 'message-id:@timgolden.me.uk': 0.16; 'received:74.55.86': 0.16; 'received:74.55.86.74': 0.16; 'received:smtp.webfaction.com': 0.16; 'received:webfaction.com': 0.16; 'tjg': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'entries': 0.24; 'received:192.168.100': 0.24; 'possibly': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'skip:p 30': 0.29; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'thank': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'subject:" ': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'you.': 0.62; 'from:addr:mail': 0.83; 'nagy': 0.84
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:23:24 +0000
From: Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: Install python 2 and 3 in the "wrong" order
References: <52FCB228.5040301@shopzeus.com> <52FCB389.3070402@timgolden.me.uk> <52FCB4AC.3010608@shopzeus.com>
In-Reply-To: <52FCB4AC.3010608@shopzeus.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Message-ID: <mailman.6838.1392294207.18130.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 20
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1392294207 news.xs4all.nl 2966 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47614
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:66174

On 13/02/2014 12:03, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
> 
>>  From a cmd window:
>>
>> ftype python.file="C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %*
>>
>> ftype python.noconfile="C:\Windows\pyw.exe" "%1" %*
>>
>> TJG
> Thank you. It worked. Although I must note that it only works if you
> start the cmd.exe as administrator (under Windows 7).
> 
>  Is it the only thing that was possibly overwritten by the python 2
> installer?

Probably: things like .dlls are Python-2 specific. And the registry
entries are per-version as well.

TJG