Bill Hayes <bhaye...@yahoo.com> added the comment: I finally found a solution from a page on StackOverflow. I had to add the two characters %* to the end of the Data value for the Windows registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\python.exe\shell\open\command So the Data value is now: "C:\Python26\python.exe" "%1" %* just as it appears above including the two sets of double quotes.
I had modified or added six other keys but only the one above solved the problem. I am running Python 2.6 under MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. For completeness I tested potential fixes as follows: I had a program show_args.py which had the two lines: import sys print 'argv length is ', len(sys.argv) In order for show_args.py to receive args from the command line invocation (before I did the registry fix) I had to explicitly call the python interpreter, so ... Before the fix: C:\...>python show_args.py aaa bbb ccc argv length is 4 C:\...>show_args.py aaa bbb ccc argv length is 1 After the fix: C:\...>show_args.py aaa bbb ccc argv length is 4 In hindsight I should have searched the registry for python paths that didn't have the ending %*. Very briefly, for those unfamiliar with Windows' RegEdit: Click the Start button and enter regedit in the Search box and the Regedit.exe name will appear in the list above - click it. Repeatedly do Edit/Find python.exe until you find a python path of the form: ...\python.exe" "%1" instead of the form ...\python.exe" "%1" %* In the right pane of Regedit, under Name click the word (Default), it will turn blue, then select Edit/Modify... Simply add a space and the two chars %* to the end of the entry in the Value data box, then click OK. Changes take effect immediately; you don't have to reboot or re-open your prompt window, but if you are using IDLE or another IDE you probably have to close and restart it. ---------- versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7936> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
