Can't drag and drop onto .py in Windows XP?

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Sizer <Sizer at nospam.com> wrote:
> I have several python utils that look at sys.argv to get a list of
>  filenames to process and mangle the files in various ways. If I have a
>  bar.bat file in Windows XP then I can just drag foo.avi onto bar.bat and
>  bar.bat gets called with foo.avi as an argument, everyone's happy. But if I
>  have a bar.py (or .pyw) and try to drag and drop foo.avi to it, I get a big
>  NO cursor and nothing happens.
>
>  Now I can work around this by creating a _bar.bat and having the _bar.bat
>  call bar.pyw with the filenames it was passed (this is obviously
>  ridiculous). Or I can create a shortcut which has the target of
>    c:\python25\pythonw.exe c:\mybar\bar.pyw
>  and that works, but makes telling people how to install my utilities on
>  their computer a pain in the rear. It's just a little weird that I can't
>  just drag and drop file names onto .pyw or .py files. Am I missing
>  something here?

I believe the problem is that Windows doesn't view bar.py as an
executable file, but as a data file with an associated launcher.  It's
not smart enough to figure out that when you try to drop a file onto a
.py file, you want it to run python.exe with both the .py file and the
dropped file as arguments.  I don't think there's any way to change
this behavior, but I could be mistaken.