[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

E. Paine added the comment: If you had a bad update, it is likely your registry is corrupt. If at all possible, I would recommend a Windows reinstall (it is quite likely other software has also been affected). However, in the past I have had similar problems and the Python installer does

[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Velson, when you respond to a post by email, rather than on the web page, please delete the post you are responding to, except for maybe a quoted line or two. When your response is added to the web page below previous posts, posts quoted in full constitute

[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

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

[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

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 by the

[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

Terry J. Reedy 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

[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

E. Paine added the comment: I am not touching the issue nosy and components for now but suspect this is a Windows installation issue. As you said, there is no `idle.exe` file and instead file association is done through a `idle.bat` file found at Lib/idlelib/idle.bat. I have a few of

[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

Change by Karthikeyan Singaravelan : -- components: +IDLE nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue41968] 3.9 IDLE documentation.

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