ActiveState Python Together with "Regular" Python) ((DLE)

[John Machin]

On Jan 12, 9:16 pm, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
> > On Jan 12, 2:00 pm, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> I installed "Python" 2.5 a few months ago with IDLE, and decided I'd like to
> >> try windowpy from ActiveState. Is having both of these installed going to
> >> cause me trouble?
>
> > What is "windowpy from ActiveState"? If you mean you wanted to try the
> > PythonWin IDE instead of IDLE, all you needed to do was go to
> >http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/hit the big download button
> > and make sure you get the 2.5 version (it's the default atm) and
> > install it.
>
> Yes, I want to try the PythonWin IDE instead of IDLE. "(DLE" was a typo.
>
> Is it possible to just disable the vanilla (IDLE) version? I may want to
> switch between the two. Most users of the program I'm about to modify use
> the vanilla version. At some point, I may want to go back to it to verify
> that in their world all is OK.

I'll try again. All you need is (a) the official distribution of
Python 2.5 for Windows from http://www.python.org (b) the pywin32
package from the URL I gave you. Install both. Click on Start / All
Programs/ Python 2.5 and will find *BOTH* IDLE and PythonWin. You and/
or your users can use IDLE or PythonWin, only one copy of Python, no
conflicts. Why do you think you need to "disable" IDLE? Just don't use
it.