Please tell me how to execute python file in Ubuntu by double clicking on file. (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 07:58 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at 3:39:26 AM UTC+13, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds like your OS file associations are all botched-up ...
> 
> Linux doesn’t do “OS file associations”.


Then how does my Linux box know that when I double-click on a text file, it
launches kwrite rather than (say) the Gimp or LibreOffice?

When I right-click on a mp4 video, I get a menu that includes a Open With
command that shows (amount others) Kaffeine, mplayer and VLC.

If you mean the Linux *kernel* doesn't do file associations, then you should
have said so.

But why do you care about the kernel? Would you think it even the *tiniest*
useful to claim that "Linux doesn't do email" because it is sendmail or
postfix (or similar) that sends email rather than the Linux kernel itself?



-- 
Steve