Velson Horie <c.v.ho...@gmail.com> added the comment:
As Terry said, the issue of Idle not starting by a .py file association was raised in another thread. That parenthesis was mentioned to give context to the documentation enquiry. In my new 3.9 installation, I could find idle.bat, but I had just been told by the Microsoft help engineer that it was possible to make an association with a file type only by pointing to an .exe file. (I could find idle.exe in a 3.8 installation on a different computer, buried deep in hidden AppData folders.) This post was specifically about the documentation. One of the difficulties of a Python installation is that it is really difficult to find where and how all the many and various strands of Python interact, how the sources are linked into a structure [I grew up pre-Windows with MS-DOS]. I was trying to find where the idle.exe was placed in the installation, since Windows requires (apparently) an explicitly stated folder/application. So I went to the IDLE documentation page to find how IDLE was implemented as a program, and how I might find "it", and where "it" was placed in the folder structure in my new installation. But those mechanics are not mentioned on that page. So- my post on documentation. I apologise for the confusion. However in the past, I had a similar experience loading anaconda etc, where the files disappeared without trace onto a hard drive. So I deleted the package (as best I can) because I don't know what is happening. On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 01:07, Terry J. Reedy <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: > > I agree that the doc needs more, but I am closing this as a duplicate of > #31329, which is specifically doc about starting IDLE. You can still > answer Paine's questions here if you want. > > File association: IDLE is not Python. It is one of many Python-oriented > editors and IDEs. .py files are and by default should be associated for > running with something that runs the file with python.exe. On Windows, > this is done via C:/Windows/py.exe. The default version for double > clicking is determined by a checkmark in the installer. > > The Windows installer does associate .py files with IDLE for editing: rt > click, edit with IDLE .... > > idle.exe is not needed for starting idle. > > I don't know what you mean by 'source format'. IDLE is written in > Python. The directory structure is mostly implementation detail not > relevant to using IDLE. File are described in idlelib/README.txt. This > might be mentioned in the doc. > > ---------- > resolution: -> duplicate > stage: -> resolved > status: open -> closed > superseder: -> Add idlelib module entry to doc > type: -> enhancement > versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.9 > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue41968> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41968> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
