Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Golden
Dave Angel wrote: [... snip sound advice about file associations etc. ...] One thing to bear in mind is that any settings, however obtained, in the User part of the registry (HKCU\Software\) will override those in the Machine part of the registry (HKLM\Software...). If you think you've set t

Re: Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-11 Thread Dave Angel
norseman wrote: hellcats wrote: I have Python2.5 installed on Windows XP. Whenever I double click on a something.pyw file, IDLE launches and opens something.pyw in the editor. I would prefer to actually *RUN* the program, not edit it. If I want to edit it then I'll choose the "Edit with IDLE"

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-11 Thread norseman
hellcats wrote: I have Python2.5 installed on Windows XP. Whenever I double click on a something.pyw file, IDLE launches and opens something.pyw in the editor. I would prefer to actually *RUN* the program, not edit it. If I want to edit it then I'll choose the "Edit with IDLE" context menu. So I

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread Scott David Daniels
hellcats wrote: On May 8, 5:36 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 5/8/2009 3:08 PM hellcats said... On May 8, 4:18 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: This is a windows question -- you'll need to reassign the default association of PYW files. Look in explorer|tools|folder options. Emile I know th

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/8/2009 3:59 PM Casey Hawthorne said... On Fri, 08 May 2009 14:18:44 -0700, Emile van Sebille This is a windows question -- you'll need to reassign the default association of PYW files. Look in explorer|tools|folder options. Emile I believe this option is in the Python init file! A

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread hellcats
On May 8, 5:36 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 5/8/2009 3:08 PM hellcats said... > > > On May 8, 4:18 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: > > >> This is a windows question -- you'll need to reassign the default > >> association of PYW files.  Look in explorer|tools|folder options. > > >> Emile > > >

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread Casey Hawthorne
On Fri, 08 May 2009 14:18:44 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: >On 5/8/2009 1:45 PM hellcats said... >> I have Python2.5 installed on Windows XP. Whenever I double click on a >> something.pyw file, IDLE launches and opens something.pyw in the >> editor. I would prefer to actually *RUN* the program,

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread Scott David Daniels
hellcats wrote: On May 8, 4:18 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 5/8/2009 1:45 PM hellcats said...> I have Python2.5 installed on Windows XP. Whenever I double click on a something.pyw file, IDLE launches and opens something.pyw in the editor. I would prefer to actually *RUN* the program, not e

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/8/2009 3:08 PM hellcats said... On May 8, 4:18 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: This is a windows question -- you'll need to reassign the default association of PYW files. Look in explorer|tools|folder options. Emile I know that. I've tried reassigning it from pythonw.exe to python.exe,

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread hellcats
On May 8, 4:18 pm, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 5/8/2009 1:45 PM hellcats said...> I have Python2.5 installed on Windows > XP. Whenever I double click on a > > something.pyw file, IDLE launches and opens something.pyw in the > > editor. I would prefer to actually *RUN* the program, not edit it.

Re: Complete frustration

2009-05-08 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/8/2009 1:45 PM hellcats said... I have Python2.5 installed on Windows XP. Whenever I double click on a something.pyw file, IDLE launches and opens something.pyw in the editor. I would prefer to actually *RUN* the program, not edit it. If I want to edit it then I'll choose the "Edit with IDLE