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

[Alemu Tadesse]

I just subscribed for python and I am VERY NEW. I would like to have a
an IDLE. My texts are just the same whether it is comment or def or
statement or ...... how am I going to make it highlighted ..my
scientific package is not working and complaining about not able to
find/load DLL ... frustrating for the first day in the python world. ANY
tip ?

Thanks

Alemu

-----Original Message-----
From: python-list-bounces+atadesse=sunedison.com at python.org
[mailto:python-list-bounces+atadesse=sunedison.com at python.org] On Behalf
Of Dennis Lee Bieber
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:43 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7
withregard to IDLE.

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:46:01 -0800, "W. eWatson"
<wolftracks at invalid.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> Of course, Dennis'
> C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\Pythonwin.exe
> wouldn't work either.
>
	If you didn't install an ActiveState packaged version, nor hand
installed the win32 extension package into a Python.org installed
system, you won't have PythonWin.
 
> I did a Win 7 search Pythonwin.exe, and found nothing. However, 
> sometimes that search fails even when though there is something on the

> PC that matches the search.
> 
> There is a pythonw.exe under C:\Python32.

	And has been mentioned at least three times in the last week --
pythonw.exe is the version of the Python interpreter that is supposed to
be the default application for .pyw files. It is the version that does
NOT open a console window for stdin/stdout (IOWs, it is meant for use by
Python scripts that use a graphical library for all I/O -- Tk, wxPython,
etc.). If you ran a graphical script using the plain python.exe it would
open a console window that would just sit there until the script exited.
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