[Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly

[Surya K]

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:29:17 +0000
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Unable to open .py files directly
From: bodsda at googlemail.com
To: suryak at live.com
CC: tutor at python.org; bgailer at gmail.com



On Mar 21, 2012 1:03 PM, "Surya K" <suryak at live.com> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:11:18 -0400

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> On 3/19/2012 10:30 AM, Surya K wrote:

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>> Hi there,

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>> I am facing a typical problem in opening .py files by clicking them (In windows).

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> "open" is ambiguous. What do you want to happen? Edit or execute?

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> clicking a file usually just selects it. Do you mean double-click or what?

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> The more precise you are regarding what you want and what you do makes it a lot easier for us to help.

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> I was "double clicking".. and I want to open IDLE.

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In that case, you need to change the file association of .py files to IDLE 
Bodsda 


Yeah, I tried that. The worst part is we don't have any exe file specifically for IDLE. I mean windows has to choose whether to edit or compile.
In my case, the file associated with my .py files is python.exe (c:/python27/python.exe). I still don't understand why its not opening in IDLE. 

If I am wrong, is there any special application (exe file) for IDLE so that I can configure to??
 		 	   		  
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