IDLE lost from Windows menu !

[MRAB]

On 28/04/2011 20:11, Uncle Ben wrote:
> On Apr 28, 12:28 pm, Uncle Ben<b... at greenba.com>  wrote:
>> I have lost the convenient feature that to edit a .py file I could
>> right-click on the file name and reach the menu item "Edit with IDLE".
>>
>> The workaround is not hard, but it wouild be nice to get this feature
>> back.
>>
>> It happened when I was mungeing around and downloaded Python 2.3.3 in
>> addition to Python 2.7.1, and got into trouble until I discovered
>> that I was involuntarily RUNNING the older version.  So I cleaned it
>> out, but still I have this aftermath.
>>
>> Is there a Windows guru out there who can tell be how to add to the
>> right-click menu clicking on myfile.py?
>>
>> Uncle Ben
>
> It was suggested to me privately that I search for
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell,
> right_click on "shell",
> create a new key called "EDIT with IDLE"
> and another called "command python.exe %1"
>
> Problem:
>    Searching on the HKEY group as above yields no "shell".
>
> Did I not do it right, or is there another way?
>
> (I would think that that command would execute my file, not edit it.
> But maybe I will be surprised.)
>
> (I am running Windows 7, 64-bit.)
>
Probably the simplest solution would be to install the appropriate
version of Python again.