What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE.

[Alan Meyer]

On 11/22/2011 3:05 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:29:18 -0500, Alan Meyer<ameyer2 at yahoo.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> On 11/22/2011 1:55 PM, Alan Meyer wrote:
>> ...
>>> 6. Select, or navigate to and select, the python IDLE interpreter.
>> ...
>> On my system that's
>>     C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\Pythonwin.exe
>>
> 	Note that this is not the Tk based IDLE (which is implemented,
> itself, as a .pyw file and is not natively executable -- which seems to
> be one of the problems; Win7 has removed the detailed file type
> association windows so you can't specify that the "application" is
> pythonw.exe running idle.pyw using one's selected file as the argument
> to the mess).

Bummer!

Sorry W.eWatson, my instructions may not work.  I've got the ActiveState 
Python on my Windows machine.  It runs a .exe file as the IDLE 
executable.  If your implementation doesn't have an exe then you're 
going to have to do some more complex work.

Since I don't have the version of Python from python.org under Windows, 
I can't really advise on what to do with that.  If you haven't got an 
exe, my instructions will only work if you install the ActiveState 
version, which does have one.

     Alan