[Idle-dev] Python 3 Geany

[Irv Kalb]

On a Mac, file types are associated with an application.  On your system, files that end in .py are associated with the IDLE application.

To change this association, here's what you do:

1)  Find any file that you've created that ends in ".py"

2)  Click on it once to select it.

3)  Do a Command I (Get Info).  This should bring up a long dialog box.

4)  In the dialog box, find the "Open with" option.  It will probably say "IDLE"

5)  Click on the current selection and it will show you a list of applications.  Select Geany (or select Other if it is not in the list, then find Geany in your Applications folder).

6)  Click on the Change All ... button.

(You may have to do this twice - I don't know why!)

This changes the association so that from then on, any time you open a file whose name ends in ".py", that it should open the file in Geany.

Good luck,

Irv


> On Jan 15, 2019, at 7:53 PM, Conrad Rivera <crivera at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> I am taking a beginning programming class -- CENT 110.  The class uses Geany.  In downloading Python 3, the Professor made Geany the default editor on my new MacPro Laptop 15'.  However, all my files and folders are being trumped by Idle.  It has become a headache because, even though I save in Geany, the Geany icon disappears and is replaced by the idle icon.
> 
> Can you help me?  I can not remove idle from the applications, as well.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Conrad
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