[Tutor] How to use Python 2.6 with IDLE?

[Dave Angel]

Gregor Lingl wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Dick 
> Moores schrieb:
>> I've taken a long break from Python, and now I want to try scripting
>> with 2.62. I downloaded and installed 2.62, changed Win XP
>> environmental variables to use Python26. Entering python at the
>> command line shows I'm using 2.62:
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Riley>python
>> Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
>> (Intel)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>  
>> So I'm able to try out the new features of 2.6 (I had been using
>> 2.51), but I can't get IDLE to use 2.6. When I click on
>> E:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw, I get an IDLE instance that says:
>> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
>> (Intel)] on win32
>> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>
>> And of course, the new 2.6 features don't work.
>>
>> Advice, please.
>>   
> I suggest you have to change the association of *.pyw files to the
> program, which is used to 'open' it.
>
> In Windows explorer choose menu extras/directory options,
> then choose tab file types and select PYW type
> then press button 'advacned...' or somethng like this at the bottom
> of the tab, chose 'open' and the button to change this.
>
> If you see the entry
>
> "C:\Python25\pythonw.exe" "%1" %*
>
> change this to Python26
>
> My translations from the German button captions to
> English might not be correct. Hope this helps anyway.
>
> Regards,
> Gregor
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dick Moores
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>
For future reference, assoc and ftype are commandline tools that let you 
examine and modify those file associations.  Very useful if you have to 
go back and forth between two versions.

DaveA