[Tutor] Opening .py files in firefox

[Ed Singleton]

On 20/03/06, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk> wrote:
> > If the browser tries to execute the script you will need to go to
> > the file types setting in the browser and set .py to plain-text.
> >
> > This is what I need to do ... but, after looking at all the options
> > (within tools->Options), I still can not find a way to do this;
>
> Neither can I! How odd.
>
> > firefox-snafu: when I try to open a file in "my document", firefox
> > splits up the path, interprets the request as a series of files to
> > open, and start to open a number of totally unrelated webpages.
>
> You probably need to mess around with quotes.
>
> Something like "%1" after the exectuable name might do it
> %1 is DOS shorthand for the name of the file... Putting it in
> quotes should stop Firefox splitting the path.
>
> > Thanks for your help, anyway; I'll stick to opening them with an editor
> > for now.
>
> You've got me curious how to do this in Firefox now :-)

On Windows, Go to Run then type Regedit.  Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and
find .py then change it's Content Type to text/plain.

As far as I am aware this is the default for python files anyway, but
it may have got changed on your computer.

Firefox itself doesn't have a list of MimeTypes under normal
circumstances.  It's mimetypes.rdf is generally empty except for
references to online lists of mimetypes.  (It's stored in your profile
btw, usually [your profile]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\)

Ed