Associating file types to my Python program

[Terry Reedy]

"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in message
news:vi0dsmks541d25 at news.supernews.com...
> Do  you really want to do that? I'd advise going a bit
> slow, and just get an item on the context menu for
> starters. Look at HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\Image\Shell
> and put your command in there. It will pop up on
> the context menu for all file extensions that have
> a "PercievedType" of "Image", at least under Windows XP.

As a user, I second this.  Too many apps want to be the default
'open'er and too few do the nice thing and *optionaly* add themself as
an right-click context menu selection.

TJR