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

[W. eWatson]

On 11/22/2011 10:43 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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.
Glad to hear you're keeping count. :-) I'll pin it on my wall. Don't use 
graphics.