File Association for Python on XP

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On 23/10/2011 15:57, W. eWatson wrote:
> Last night I thought I'd install Python on a friend's XP PC. I noticed
> he had declined to show extensions on any file. I thought the Control
> Panel might be the way to do it. I couldn't find anything that would do
> all files, doc, txt, py, etc.
>
> I was able to do it, I think, from a right-click on a py file. However,
> when I then clicked on the file, it seemed like the IDE was not going to
> come up. Instead it looked like it was headed directly for interpreter.
> His computer is quite slow. We went on to something else. Python doesn't
> yet need that much attention.
>
> So what should I have done, and how do I undo what I did?

To show the extensions, in an Explorer window go to Tools->Folder 
Options... and look in the View tab. You can also look at the file 
associations in the File Types tab.