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Re: Idle no longer works

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:11:06 -0700 (PDT), jussij@zeusedit.com declaimed
the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:09:16 PM UTC-7, Opap-OJ wrote:
> 
> > I can no longer open the Idle IDE for Python on Windows 7.
> > ..
> > Any idea why?
> 
> It looks like your registry has changed.
> 
> To fix this just use the Windows Explorer, click on a Python file 
> and use the 'Open with, Choose default program' menu and then 
> select the Idle IDE as the default program.

	That is probably the worst choice to make -- since what you've
defined means double clicking on ANY .py file will NOT RUN IT -- but
rather attempt to open it with the editor (IDLE)... But since IDLE
itself is a .py file, it may fail to start at all.

	If double-clicking an IDLE.py file does not start it, then the
registry has lost the association of .py to python.exe, not to IDLE. OR
-- .py IS associated to python.exe but the association (the "run
command" is not passing the .py file name to the python executable).

	On WinXP (with ActiveState 2.5.x version) my associations are as:

E:\UserData\Wulfraed\My Documents>assoc .py
.py=py_auto_file

E:\UserData\Wulfraed\My Documents>ftype py_auto_file
py_auto_file="E:\Python25\python.exe" "%1" %*

E:\UserData\Wulfraed\My Documents>

(with similar entries for .pyw to hook into pythonw.exe)
{Just booted the Win7 laptop with Python 2.7.x: The only real difference
is that it uses Python.File where the above has py_auto_file}



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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Idle no longer works Opap-OJ <opiney597@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-11 16:09 -0700
  Re: Idle no longer works Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2012-08-11 17:30 -0700
  Re: Idle no longer works Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-11 21:59 -0400
  Re: Idle no longer works jussij@zeusedit.com - 2012-08-13 00:11 -0700
    Re: Idle no longer works Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-13 13:43 -0400
    Re: Idle no longer works Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-13 14:14 -0400

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