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

[Sibylle Koczian]

Am 23.11.2011 04:45, schrieb 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.
>

PythonWin hasn't got anything to do with IDLE, it's another IDE for 
Python. It is part of the Python for Windows extensions:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/.