rzed wrote:
"W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote in
news:hlls5c$89...@news.eternal-september.org:
I've successfully compiled several small python programs on Win
XP into executables using py2exe. A program goes from a name like
snowball.py to snowball. A dir in the command prompt window finds
snowball.py but not snowball. If I type in snowball, it executes.
What's up with that?
There is a ludicrous setting in Windows explorer that hides the
extensions for known file types, such as .exe. If you see "snowball"
in Win Explorer, that's probably the way your system is set. If you
click on Tools . Folder Options . View you should see a checkbox for
the "Hide extensions for known file types" option. Uncheck it, and the
disappearing program will return to view.
The problem with that setting is that an .exe file could masquerade as
some other type, eg "foo.txt.exe" would appear as "foo.txt", so you
might have thought that you were safe opening it because it's just text.
This is a separate issue for why snowball.py executes when you enter
"snowball" at the command line.
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