uninstall and Windows file associations

[Neil Hodgson]

Roger Miller:

> When I installed Python 2.5 (on Windows XP) I left 2.4 in place "just
> in case". Today I decided to remove it. However after doing so (from
> the control panel) I found that Windows no longer knows about the
> Python file types and associations. Is this behavior expected, 

    This is pretty much inevitable on Windows as there is no generic 
support to handle this sort of situation. Python could attempt to do its 
own special case handling (with a registered list of Python 
installations and an arbitration/repair phase in the uninstaller) but it 
would be a lot of work and quite fragile.

    Just reinstall your preferred version. You may want to check which 
extensions have been installed into Python so that they can also be 
reinstalled if needed.

    Neil