Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-28 Thread W. eWatson
On 7/27/2011 9:46 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:28:38 -0700, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: For junk.py, I tried Open With-Choose default program. I selected idle.pyw. When I tried the new default for getting to

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-28 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 2011-07-28 13:56, W. eWatson wrote: On 7/27/2011 9:46 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: {and that was captured by aright-click in the command window, select all, anotherright-click to capture, then move to the newreader and ctrl-v to paste} I'm quite willing to do this in the command window,

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-28 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:26 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: .py=Python.File .pyw=Python.NoConFile Python.File=C:\Python25\python.exe %1 %* Python.File=C:\Python25\python.exe %1 %* Python.NoConFile=C:\Python25\pythonw.exe %1 %* That all looks good. I cannot copy from the cmd

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-28 Thread W. eWatson
On 7/28/2011 6:19 AM, Jerry Hill wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:26 PM, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: .py=Python.File .pyw=Python.NoConFile Python.File=C:\Python25\python.exe %1 %* Python.File=C:\Python25\python.exe %1 %* Python.NoConFile=C:\Python25\pythonw.exe %1 %* That all

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-28 Thread W. eWatson
On 7/28/2011 8:10 AM, W. eWatson wrote: On 7/28/2011 6:19 AM, Jerry Hill wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:26 PM, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: .py=Python.File .pyw=Python.NoConFile Python.File=C:\Python25\python.exe %1 %* Python.File=C:\Python25\python.exe %1 %*

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-28 Thread W. eWatson
I've given this problem over to the Python Tutor mail-list. I can capture screens more easily than manipulate in cmd.exe. It may be a preference problem on who owns what. SYSTEM seems to be the owner, and not me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread W. eWatson
It's been many months since I played with Python, and have forgotten how to bring up IDLE. If I simply click on a py file, I see what may be a dos window appear and quickly disappear. If I right-click on the file, and select IDLE, the same thing happens. If I go directly to All Programs, the

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread rantingrick
On Jul 27, 10:06 am, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: It's been many months since I played with Python, and have forgotten how to bring up IDLE. If I simply click on a py file, I see what may be a dos window appear and quickly disappear. Double-clicking a [py|pyw] file in windows will

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread W. eWatson
On 7/27/2011 8:38 AM, rantingrick wrote: On Jul 27, 10:06 am, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: It's been many months since I played with Python, and have forgotten how to bring up IDLE. If I simply click on a py file, I see what may be a dos window appear and quickly disappear.

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: If I run cmd.exe and work my way down to  .../idlelib, I find nothing but idle.bat. strange. Hidden?  I can get into line mode by using python.exe. That is, I can type in print abc, and get a result. So, you don't have

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread W. eWatson
On 7/27/2011 9:48 AM, Jerry Hill wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: If I run cmd.exe and work my way down to .../idlelib, I find nothing but idle.bat. strange. Hidden? I can get into line mode by using python.exe. That is, I can type in print

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:34 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: On 7/27/2011 9:48 AM, Jerry Hill wrote: So, you don't have an idle.py or idle.pyw in C:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\ (or where ever you installed python)?  If not, it sounds to me like your python installation is screwed up.  I

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread W. eWatson
On 7/27/2011 12:53 PM, Jerry Hill wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:34 PM, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: On 7/27/2011 9:48 AM, Jerry Hill wrote: So, you don't have an idle.py or idle.pyw in C:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\ (or where ever you installed python)? If not, it sounds to me like

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 27/07/11 23:26, W. eWatson wrote: I cannot copy from the cmd window. It ends with [errorno 13] Permission denied to c:||Users\\Wayne\\idlerc\\recent-files.lst' Yes you can. Right-click to bring up a menu with a select or copy option (IIRC) As for the error, see if there is file

Re: How do I access IDLE in Win7

2011-07-27 Thread W. eWatson
In the mean time, I punted and re-installed. It's still not quite right. I uninstalled it. I was asked during install if I wanted to remove c:\Python25. It was still there and had several folders (Lib, Scripts) and files (fishe.py, RemovePIL.exe, junk.py). I said yes. It installed 2.5.2.