[Python-ideas] Make py.exe default to Python 3

Alexander Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Tue Mar 8 23:22:19 EST 2016


It modifies the windows registry to set a file association, which is a 
pain when you want double clicking a python file to open a text editor.  
So you have to change file associations, which was made really painful 
in recent versions of windows.

On 3/8/2016 23:19, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 03/08/2016 08:17 PM, Alexander Walters wrote:
>
>> I cant ignore it because it modifies my system when I install python,
>> and is a massive pain to scrub off the system if it accidentally gets
>> installed.
>
> Really?  I thought it only installed two files into the windows 
> directory?
>
> -- 
> ~Ethan~
>
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