This will work fine for me Tim, thank you for your time! "Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Just to keep things readable, I've reordered the posts top-to-bottom chronologically. And "Me" is the cognomen of the original poster, not simply a redundant personal pronoun!)
[Me] > I need to install both 2.3 and 2.4 on my Win2000 system. > Can someone please > give me a pointer as to how to do this? Thanks! [Tim Golden] > ... The simple answer is: just install > them (in different directories, eg c:\python23, > c:\python24), installing last the one which > you want your .py/.pyw files to be associated with. [Me] > Thank you for your reply! Is there a simple way to > change the .py/.pyw associations? Like a registry > setting I can "toggle"? Or are there lots of other > things involved, system directory libraries etcetera? Assuming that you're not doing anything fancy with system or Python paths -- and I guess from the tenor of your questions that you're not -- then it's just the same as changing any other file association on Windows. There was a thread on this subject fairly recently, but in essence you can either use the File Associations tab on Explorer (on XP it's under Tools > Folder Options > File Types) or you can use the command line equivalent: FTYPE Python.File="C:\Python24\python.exe" "%1" %* replacing c:\python24 by whatever is appropriate. If you really wanted to do things which involved testing your programs against different versions of Python, which I imagine might be your aim, then you probably want either to write some sort of batch file wrapper (search c.l.py for some examples of this in the past) or to use a MoveablePython installation: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/ which is designed for this kind of things (according to their introduction). TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
