installing 2.4

[Jeff Shannon]

Jive wrote:

>As for checking the "application path",  I don't know what that means.
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Go to a command prompt, and type 'echo %path%'.  You'll see a list of 
all the directories that Windows looks in to find an executable -- i.e., 
if you type 'python', Windows will work through this list of directories 
looking for a program named 'python', and will execute the first one it 
finds.  If you want 2.3 to be your default Python version, then you 
should have 'C:\Python23\.' somewhere near the front of this list.  If 
'C:\Python24\.' is first in the list, then you may be running the wrong 
version of Python.

Now, start up Windows Explorer and from the Tools menu, select 'Folder 
Options'.  In the property sheet that comes up, go to the 'File Types' 
tab.  Scroll down until you find the entry for 'PY  Python File', select 
it, and click on the 'Advanced' button near the bottom.  You're now 
looking at the file associations for .py files.  Select the 'open' 
action, and click 'Edit...'.  If the application listed specifies a 
Python24 path, then all .py files will (by default) be run by Python24.  
If there's no path specified to python.exe, then Windows will search the 
application path (as described above), and you might or might not be 
running 2.4 by default.

I would *think* that uninstalling 2.4 should return these to their 
previous values (i.e. 2.3), but I'm not sure.  If they're not valid 
values, then we can try to walk you through fixing them.  (Note that I'm 
giving directions that match Windows 2000, since that's what I'm on 
right now.  Things maybe a bit different if you're using a different 
version of Windows, so be sure to include your Windows version in any 
replies...)

Also, I'm presuming that the 2.4 packages that you installed use 
distutils, which of course requires Python to be present.  Ideally, you 
should uninstall those packages *before* you uninstall Python 2.4.  You 
can try reinstalling 2.4, uninstalling the packages, and then 
uninstalling 2.4 again... or, if the packages' files were deleted when 
Python was uninstalled, you may have to hack your registry to remove 
those entries from the uninstall list.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International