[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/12/2010 5:46 AM, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:

> On Windows, IDLE opens when you right click / edit a .py. Very useful.

On my xp machine with 3.1.2, it edit .py opens with notepad. Perhaps the 
installer just copies forward the association from long ago, before IDLE 
was available, or at least so usable. I have thought of changing that, 
but I do not know what the replacement incantation would be.
-- 
Terry Jan Reedy