Python 2.7.2 on Win7 and IDLE (Try it)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:06:47 -0800, W. eWatson wrote:

> Undoubtedly some of you have seen my post Both Python 2.5.2 and 2.7.2
> flop the same way under Win 7.
> 
> One thing I think no one has offered is whether their installation of
> 2.7.2 has the same IDLE oddity that I've described.  That is, if you
> right-click on a py file, do you see a choice for the IDLE editor?

Terry Reedy has already said that his installation works fine.

"I installed 3.3.2 on a new Win 7 machine and Edit with IDLE works fine."


If you have installed the regular, 32-bit version of Python on a 64-bit 
version of Windows, chances are good that there will be registry problems 
stopping things from working correctly. See Stephen Hansen's post.



-- 
Steven