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

[W. eWatson]

On 11/17/2011 9:25 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:21 PM, W. eWatson<wolftracks at invalid.com>  wrote:
>>
>> On 11/17/2011 7:59 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/17/2011 03:31 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
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>>>> 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?
Yes. I tried running it. Got nowhere.