[Tutor] Trouble installing Python on Win7 (not a valid Win 32 app)

[Wayne Watson]

It was the default action before with the right-click. I don't care 
about double-click. I just looked on my XP, and that's the way it's done 
on 2.5.2 there.  I have no idea how this got onto double-click.  Let's 
not worry about it in any case.

We can quibble some more, but I'm done with this effort.  See my next 
post to Alan in a minute or two. Nevertheless, thanks for the help.

>
> That's not entirely true, actually.  See, the DEFAULT association for 
> Python files, as set by the installation, is just to run the damn 
> things using python.exe or pythonw.exe - NOT to edit them in IDLE.  By 
> default, if you want to edit the script you right-click and select 
> "Open in IDLE" (or you use some other editor/IDE), but if you 
> double-click it the script just runs.  What's messed with all of that 
> is your insistence that you want IDLE to be the default action.  And 
> there's nothing wrong with that either - but you need to recognize 
> that it is NOT the default setting, and plan accordingly.
>

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