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[Steve Holden]

"Thorsten Kampe" <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> wrote in ...
> * syver-en at online.no
> >"Ali K" <akakakhel at attbi.com> writes:
> >> Hardware: 386 enhanced, 75MHz, 32MB RAM.
> >> OS: Win98
> >> Copied files from other computer to mine.
> >> It doesn't open when I click on ide.pyw or when I choose to edit a py
> >> file
> >>
> >> with it.
> >
> > I suggest you install the python distro from www.python.org.
>
> You think this will work on medieval computers?
>

Depends what you mean by mediaeval. The latest release should work fine on
anything that runs Windows 95 or a more recent Microsoft OS, and pretty much
any old Unix implementation you care to choose.

Otherwise, installer are still available for version back to 1.5.2, I seem
to remember. Someone even recently revived the DOS implementation, though
I'm not sure I'd recommend that unless absolutely necessary.

You certainly shouldn't expect your Windows system to understand what a .pyw
file is supposed to do without being told (in some installation process, or
manually). ".pyw" files should run pythonw.exe (no console), ".py" files
should run python.exe.

regards
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