On 4/15/2012 3:01 PM, Bryan wrote: > I'd like to encourage my users to check out > Python 3, but installing it on Windows will take over the '.py' > extension and break stuff that currently works. Have you tried telling your users to tell the installer not to do that? IIRC, it's a simple checkbox option. I have a 64-bit 3.2 as my main, but I also have a 64-bit 3.3, a 32-bit 3.2 and a 32-bit 2.7 installed, and not once did any of the installers hijack the association.
On 4/15/2012 6:24 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > There used to be an option to not do that, but it seems to have either > be removed or hidden. Perhaps it only appears for "custom installations" (or whatever it's called). I had no problem installing 3.3a1 and upgrading it to 3.3a2 while keeping 3.2.x as the default. -- CPython 3.2.3 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17990 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
