On 8/13/2012 1:43 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:11:06 -0700 (PDT), jus...@zeusedit.com declaimed
the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
On Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:09:16 PM UTC-7, Opap-OJ wrote:
I can no longer open the Idle IDE for Python on Windows 7.
..
Any idea why?
It looks like your registry has changed.
Most likely, or the Python installation has be damaged.
To fix this just use the Windows Explorer, click on a Python file
and use the 'Open with, Choose default program' menu and then
select the Idle IDE as the default program.
That is probably the worst choice to make -- since what you've
defined means double clicking on ANY .py file will NOT RUN IT -- but
rather attempt to open it with the editor (IDLE)... But since IDLE
itself is a .py file, it may fail to start at all.
If double-clicking an IDLE.py file does not start it, then the
registry has lost the association of .py to python.exe, not to IDLE. OR
-- .py IS associated to python.exe but the association (the "run
command" is not passing the .py file name to the python executable).
On WinXP (with ActiveState 2.5.x version) my associations are as:
E:\UserData\Wulfraed\My Documents>assoc .py
.py=py_auto_file
E:\UserData\Wulfraed\My Documents>ftype py_auto_file
py_auto_file="E:\Python25\python.exe" "%1" %*
E:\UserData\Wulfraed\My Documents>
(with similar entries for .pyw to hook into pythonw.exe)
{Just booted the Win7 laptop with Python 2.7.x: The only real difference
is that it uses Python.File where the above has py_auto_file}
Re-installing, as I suggested in the first response, is much easier,
especially for someone not familiar with the above.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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