Jive wrote:
As for checking the "application path", I don't know what that means.
Go to a command prompt, and type 'echo %path%'. You'll see a list of all the directories that Windows looks in to find an executable -- i.e., if you type 'python', Windows will work through this list of directories looking for a program named 'python', and will execute the first one it finds. If you want 2.3 to be your default Python version, then you should have 'C:\Python23\.' somewhere near the front of this list. If 'C:\Python24\.' is first in the list, then you may be running the wrong version of Python.
Now, start up Windows Explorer and from the Tools menu, select 'Folder Options'. In the property sheet that comes up, go to the 'File Types' tab. Scroll down until you find the entry for 'PY Python File', select it, and click on the 'Advanced' button near the bottom. You're now looking at the file associations for .py files. Select the 'open' action, and click 'Edit...'. If the application listed specifies a Python24 path, then all .py files will (by default) be run by Python24. If there's no path specified to python.exe, then Windows will search the application path (as described above), and you might or might not be running 2.4 by default.
I would *think* that uninstalling 2.4 should return these to their previous values (i.e. 2.3), but I'm not sure. If they're not valid values, then we can try to walk you through fixing them. (Note that I'm giving directions that match Windows 2000, since that's what I'm on right now. Things maybe a bit different if you're using a different version of Windows, so be sure to include your Windows version in any replies...)
Also, I'm presuming that the 2.4 packages that you installed use distutils, which of course requires Python to be present. Ideally, you should uninstall those packages *before* you uninstall Python 2.4. You can try reinstalling 2.4, uninstalling the packages, and then uninstalling 2.4 again... or, if the packages' files were deleted when Python was uninstalled, you may have to hack your registry to remove those entries from the uninstall list.
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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