What I do and do not know about installing Python on Win 7 with regard to IDLE.

[MaxTheMouse]

On Nov 26, 1:13 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:26:31 -0800 (PST), Mark Tolonen
> <metol... at gmail.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > Changing the application defaults is now in "Default Programs" right
> > on the Start Menu.  It's more "obvious" than the old location, but the
> > old location is just known by more people and Microsoft loves to move
> > things around.
>
>         Maybe I missed it, but when I looked at that on my Win7 laptop, I
> only saw a way to define a default for "open" action -- which, for .py
> and .pyw files, should be python.exe and pythonw.exe, respectively;
> otherwise you can't run them via double-click.
>
>         What I did NOT find was a way to define OTHER actions for the
> <right-click> menu... IE; no way to define an "edit with xxx", or a
> "print" operation.
> --
>         Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
>         wlfr... at ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

I haven't gone back through this complicated thread so I apologize if
this has already been mentioned.

I only found a registry based way for vista and win7.
http://www.techspot.com/guides/210-edit-windows-extended-context-menu/
http://www.winvistaclub.com/e11.html


There is also the 'extended' menu by shift+right-click. Maybe the Edit
option can show up there.

Adam