Python 2.7.2 on Win7 and IDLE (Try it)

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On 19/11/2011 00:50, W. eWatson wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 4:31 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
>> On 11/18/2011 3:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:06:47 -0800, W. eWatson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Undoubtedly some of you have seen my post Both Python 2.5.2 and 2.7.2
>>>> flop the same way under Win 7.
>>>>
>>>> One thing I think no one has offered is whether their installation of
>>>> 2.7.2 has the same IDLE oddity that I've described. That is, if you
>>>> right-click on a py file, do you see a choice for the IDLE editor?
>>>
>>> Terry Reedy has already said that his installation works fine.
>>>
>>> "I installed 3.3.2 on a new Win 7 machine and Edit with IDLE works
>>> fine."
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have installed the regular, 32-bit version of Python on a 64-bit
>>> version of Windows, chances are good that there will be registry
>>> problems
>>> stopping things from working correctly. See Stephen Hansen's post.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Somehow 3.3.2 doesn't look like 2.7.2.
>>
>> Ah, I installed a 32-bit. Missed his post. So what should I do? Try
>> 3.3.2 64-bit? I'm game. By the time you read this, I will either have
>> done it or gotten into it.
>
> 3.3.2? I do not see that in his single message I found. I see a 3.2.2
> release on <http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2.2/>. Google
> shows me nothing for 3.3.2.
>
> I see:
> * Windows x86 MSI Installer (3.2.2) (sig) and Visual Studio debug
> information files (sig)
> * Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (3.2.2) [1] (sig) and Visual Studio debug
> information files (sig)
>
> Visual Studio???? I hope I don't need VS!

If you look more closely you'll see that there are 5 links on each line:

     Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (3.2.2)
     [1]
     (sig)
     Visual Studio debug information files
     (sig)

Unless you intending to work on the sources, you need just the first
one:

     Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (3.2.2)

for a 64-bit build of Python 3.2.2.