New submission from Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Here's how I set up my computer, for multiple versions. Now to change the "default", I just use the assoc command to change the association for .py to one of the three listed ftypes. Simple and quick.
c:\>ftype Python25.File ftype Python25.File Python25.File="C:\Python25\python.exe" "%1" %* c:\>ftype Python26.File ftype Python26.File Python26.File="C:\Python26\python.exe" "%1" %* c:\>ftype Python30.File ftype Python30.File Python30.File="C:\Python30\python.exe" "%1" %* c:\>assoc .py assoc .py .py=Python25.File It would be nice if the ftypes were version specific as created by the installer; IIRC, I created the above three from the ftype Python.File as I installed each version. The Python.File could still be created by default, and could still reflect the last temporally installed version of Python... but by documenting the version specific ftypes, the user could still switch among versions. I suppose there is a question of if the version should contain two or three parts, i.e. Python253.File; and if the version should be separated such as Python2.5.3.File; the above worked for me for the moment, but some thought might reveal a more useful technique. It might even be appropriate for a Python version to create 3 ftypes, such that version N.M.O creates ftypes named PythonN.File, PythonN.M.File, and PythonN.M.O.File. All but the most specific one would be subject to change when additional versions are installed. If M or O are zero, they should probably still be specified (as zero) in a scheme like this, so that there would be a solid way of referring to all the specific versions. ---------- components: Installation messages: 76731 nosy: v+python severity: normal status: open title: fast swap of "default" Windows python versions type: feature request versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4485> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
