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

[Sibylle Koczian]

Am 25.11.2011 01:16, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
>
> As far as I can tell, nobody running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 has
> chimed in to either confirm or refute W. eWatson's claim that IDLE
> doesn't show up, so we have no way of telling whether it doesn't show up
> due to a lack in the installer, or because eWatson has (slightly) broken
> his system and has inadvertently prevented it from showing up.
>
I'm using Python 3.2.2 on Windows 7, 64 bit, and I get "Edit with IDLE" 
and "Edit with PythonWin" in my context menu. I installed Python from 
the Python.org site, the Windows extensions from Sourceforge, both of 
them for all users and without any changes to the standard installation 
or to file associations.

This isn't the first Python 3 version on this machine, I don't know if 
that might be relevant.

But it's a fact that changing the applications shown in the context menu 
for a file association isn't obvious any more on Windows 7.

HTH
Sibylle