[Tutor] A few Python Mysteries [Reset]

[Alan Gauld]

On 26/12/11 18:57, Wayne Watson wrote:

>>> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>>> 'C:\\Users\\Wayne\\.idlerc\\recent-files.lst'
>>
>> Can you open it in Notepad from the same command prompt?
>>
> Opens with Notepad and jEdit from the menu off a py file.

That's not what I asked.
Does it open in Notepad from the same command prompt
where you try to run python? Or indeed any command prompt:

C:\WINDOWS> notepad C:\Users\Wayne\.idlerc\recent-files.lst

> I see recent-files.lst is openable with Word.

Thats nort a surprise, its probably just a text file, so Windows could 
associate just about anything!

> I see mydir_math.py is opened with python.exe!!??
 > True of other py files.

Which is what you'd expect, after all the default behaviour for a python 
script should surely be to get executed by Python? What else would you 
expect?

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Alan G
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