On Apr 28, 12:28 pm, Uncle Ben <b...@greenba.com> wrote: > I have lost the convenient feature that to edit a .py file I could > right-click on the file name and reach the menu item "Edit with IDLE". > > The workaround is not hard, but it wouild be nice to get this feature > back. > > It happened when I was mungeing around and downloaded Python 2.3.3 in > addition to Python 2.7.1, and got into trouble until I discovered > that I was involuntarily RUNNING the older version. So I cleaned it > out, but still I have this aftermath. > > Is there a Windows guru out there who can tell be how to add to the > right-click menu clicking on myfile.py? > > Uncle Ben
It was suggested to me privately that I search for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell, right_click on "shell", create a new key called "EDIT with IDLE" and another called "command python.exe %1" Problem: Searching on the HKEY group as above yields no "shell". Did I not do it right, or is there another way? (I would think that that command would execute my file, not edit it. But maybe I will be surprised.) (I am running Windows 7, 64-bit.) Uncle Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
