I am out of trial and error again Lists
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Oct 25 18:48:59 EDT 2014
On 10/25/2014 2:23 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:38:31 -0400, Seymore4Head
> <Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>> I do get the difference. I don't actually use Python 2. I use
>> CodeSkulptor. I do have Python 3 installed. Actually I have Python 2
>> installed but IDLE defaults to Python 3.
This is wrong. Pythonx.y runs Idlex.y, not vice versa.
Seymore installed some version of Python 3 as default, as he should
have, and 'Edit with Idle' opens the default version of Python, with its
version of Idle.
>> So it is a pain to actually load Python 2.
Not really, neither on linux or Windows.
> So don't use Idle...
Since Seymore analysis is wrong, this advice in not the answer.
If he is running on Windows, it is dubious in that the Windows console
interpreter is a pain to use.
> Open up a Windows command shell and invoke Python
> without giving a script file to execute.
>
> C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>python
python -m idlelib will open the corresponding Idle. So will the Start
menu entry or an icon pinned to the taskbar.
> C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>python3
You must have done something extra to make this work on Windows.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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