March 1, 2010
5:21 a.m.
Glenn Linderman wrote:
If your text editor blows up because it is binary, it is a sad text editor.
Blow up is probably an exaggeration, but even just getting a screen full of gibberish when I think I'm opening a text file is a jarring experience.
If you have .py mapped to a text editor, that's sort of kooky too; I have it mapped to Python.
On Windows the action for double-clicking is usually mapped to running the file, but there's typically another action such as "Open with IDLE" or whatever available, and a bytecode file named with ".py" would allow you to apply that action to it. -- Greg