Velson Horie added the comment:
Paine: thank you for your offer to sort the problem out.
See my answer to Terry for a further introduction to the situation.
My laptop's operating system Win10 64 bit was mashed by Windows update
1909. I deleted 3.6, loaded 3.8 (but that didn't work because
Velson Horie added the comment:
As Terry said, the issue of Idle not starting by a .py file association was
raised in another thread. That parenthesis was mentioned to give context to
the documentation enquiry. In my new 3.9 installation, I could find
idle.bat, but I had just been told
New submission from Velson Horie :
https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html
I am trying to sort out why a new installation of 3.9 onto Win10 64bit fails to
associate a .py file type with IDLE. {hint - there is no idle.exe. installed -
Why?}. 2.7, 3.6 and 3.8 worked fine.
The documentation
