[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

[Velson Horie]

Velson Horie <c.v.horie at gmail.com> added the comment:

Paine: thank you for your offer to sort the problem out.
See my answer to Terry for a  further introduction to the situation.

My laptop's operating system Win10 64 bit was mashed by Windows update
1909. I deleted 3.6, loaded 3.8 (but that didn't work because the system
had been converted from 64 to 32 bit). Deleted 3.8, installed update 2004,
then 3.9.  I then tried to run my (simple and small) .py code by double
clicking, and that failed.  So I tried to associate the .py files with any
of the various python options presented by Windows - didn't work. I then
found buried in the folder structure a copy of idle.bat so I made the
association. That didn't work.  Meanwhile the option to edit with IDLE,
which I noticed early on but which did not appear in "open with" options,
had disappeared.  So I asked the Microsoft help chat.  Who said that
idle.bat would not work anyway.  I tried to copy idle.exe from my desktop
(3.8) to my laptop (3.9). but no luck.
I was stuck, so raised my query on the topic of idle.exe.

I have installed 3.9 for all users and clicking the PATH box, and on
C:\Program Files\Python39, which is declared on the environmental variable
list.

I had gone to the documentation page to sort the problem myself, but that
provided no relevant help, so raised the query about that page.

You have made clear that it is not really a Python issue, but my initial
mistake with Windows.
Have you any idea how I might undo the various wrong associations to get
back to the "edit with IDLE option" - reinstall 3.9?.  If not, I shall have
another go with Microsoft help.

Thank you

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 18:20, E. Paine <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> E. Paine <paineelisha at gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> I am not touching the issue nosy and components for now but suspect this
> is a Windows installation issue. As you said, there is no `idle.exe` file
> and instead file association is done through a `idle.bat` file found at
> Lib/idlelib/idle.bat. I have a few of questions that I would appreciate if
> you could answer to give some more context:
>  - What behaviour is incorrect? Is it that double clicking doesn't launch
> python.exe or there is no "edit with IDLE" entry in the right-click menu?
>  - Did you install it for different users compared to the other versions
> (all users / admin vs. just for this user)
>  - Do you have any other Python versions installed simultaneously with 3.9?
>
> I agree it may be nice to give a brief overview on IDLE's
> "behind-the-scenes" though I am slightly confused why you raised this issue
> as a documentation issue.
>
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