Both Python 2.5.2 and 2.7.2 flop the same way under Win 7

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:21 PM, W. eWatson <wolftracks at invalid.com> wrote:
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> On 11/17/2011 7:59 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
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>> On 11/17/2011 03:31 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/17/2011 9:39 AM, John Gordon wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>>>
>>>> Can you add IDLE manually to the associated applications list?
>>>>
>>> Tried that by sending it directly to idle.pyw, but then trying to get
>>> there through the Edit with menu caused a "invalid Win32 app."
>>
>> You've been told repeatedly that building an association to idle.pyw is
>> useless. It must be to something Windows understands, such as .exe, or
>> .bat (or several other extensions, as I said in an earlier message) So
>> why waste our time telling us yet again that it doesn't work?
>>
>>
>>
> Because some  people think that's a solution, and ask. It's not. It leads to an error message.


Checking my Python install, there should be an idle.bat file in there
too. Have you tried that?