On Apr 28, 3:29 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 28/04/2011 20:11, Uncle Ben wrote: > > > > > 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.) > > Probably the simplest solution would be to install the appropriate > version of Python again.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Tried that. No change. Strange things are happening! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
