Windows upgrade incomplete

Colin J. Williams cjw at sympatico.ca
Fri Dec 22 09:42:33 EST 2006


Pete Forman wrote:
> I've a few versions of Python on my XP PC, most recently Python 2.5.
> The file associations appear not to have been upgraded.  Executing a
> .py file turned out to still be using 2.3.
> 
>> assoc .py
> .py=Python.File
> 
>> ftype Python.file
> Python.file=D:\PROGRA~1\Python23\python.exe "%1" %*
> 
> Presumably if I'd uninstalled the old Python first I'd have not seen
> this.
> 
> I've amended my file type associations and all is now well.  Someone
> might care to look at the installer.  I've used the MSIs since 2.4.

I don't think you need to uninstall anything - unless the older version 
is no longer required.

The last version of Python installed should be the default version.

Colin W.




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