Hello all, Back when I had 2.6.x installed, I used to be able to drag a file onto a .py file in order to open it with that script (rather, pass the name of the file as `sys.argv[1]`). I did nothing special to make this work, as far as I can recall; it was something that the installer set up automatically. I am running Windows Vista.
Now that I have uninstalled 2.6.x, and have 2.7.2 and 3.2.2 installed, this behaviour no longer works. The .py file is apparently not recognized by Vista as a valid drop target; it does not highlight, and when I release the mouse, the dragged file is simply moved to / reordered within the containing folder. I was able to find a registry hack that is supposed to re-enable this behaviour: http://mindlesstechnology.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/make-python-scripts-droppable-in-windows/ However, I tried this and it had no effect whatsoever. Is there any way I can get the drag-and-drop behaviour back? Was it deliberately disabled for some reason? It was exceptionally convenient for several of my scripts, and now I have to make .bat wrappers for each one to get the same convenience. Aside: when I double-click a .py file, what determines which Python will run it? Is it a matter of which appears first in the PATH, or do I have to set something else in the registry? Will a shebang line override the default on Windows? If so, how do I write a shebang line for a Windows path - just "#!C:/Windows/Python32"? -- ~Zahlman {:>
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