On 8/31/19, Akash verma <av69...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Edit With Python" option missing from message context when right clicked > with mouse .
If you mean "Edit with IDLE", this means that you've changed the file association. It's no longer using the default "Python.File" program identifier (progid). Create an empty .py script on your desktop. Right click it, and select "Open with" -> "Choose another app". Select the "Python" app that has the Python logo with a rocket on it. At the bottom of the dialog, select the option to "Always use this app to open .py files". Click "OK". This can happen if some other program grabbed the file association -- perhaps automatically, or perhaps you approved the change and don't remember it. It can also be the case that a user mistakenly tries to fix this by selecting the "Look for an app on this PC" option in the "Open with" dialog, which auto-generates a progid for the file association. (1) You probably do not want an auto-generated progid because you'll lose installed features of the application. In the case of Python, that's the "Edit with IDLE" menu and the drop-handler shell extension that enables dragging and dropping files on a script in Explorer. Also, if you end up selecting an installed "python.exe" instead of the "py.exe" launcher, you'll lose shebang support in scripts. (2) Windows creates a progid that's intended for opening a data file. It doesn't have `*%` in the template, so passing command-line arguments won't work. That said, if you do end up associating .py files with an auto-generated progid, at least now you know a simple way to switch back to the original progid. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
