Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:
I agree that the doc needs more, but I am closing this as a duplicate of #31329, which is specifically doc about starting IDLE. You can still answer Paine's questions here if you want. File association: IDLE is not Python. It is one of many Python-oriented editors and IDEs. .py files are and by default should be associated for running with something that runs the file with python.exe. On Windows, this is done via C:/Windows/py.exe. The default version for double clicking is determined by a checkmark in the installer. The Windows installer does associate .py files with IDLE for editing: rt click, edit with IDLE .... idle.exe is not needed for starting idle. I don't know what you mean by 'source format'. IDLE is written in Python. The directory structure is mostly implementation detail not relevant to using IDLE. File are described in idlelib/README.txt. This might be mentioned in the doc. ---------- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Add idlelib module entry to doc type: -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41968> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
