** Copy of a reply sent only to Alan Gauld by mistake. On 3/20/06, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the browser tries to execute the script you will need to go to > > the file types setting in the browser and set .py to plain-text. > > > > This is what I need to do ... but, after looking at all the options > > (within tools->Options), I still can not find a way to do this; > > Neither can I! How odd. > > > firefox-snafu: when I try to open a file in "my document", firefox > > splits up the path, interprets the request as a series of files to > > open, and start to open a number of totally unrelated webpages. > > You probably need to mess around with quotes. > > Something like "%1" after the exectuable name might do it > %1 is DOS shorthand for the name of the file... Putting it in > quotes should stop Firefox splitting the path. >
Thanks, that solved both problems! I can now either right-click on a Python file (icon) and chose to display it in the browser, or open the file within Firefox (ctrl-o) itself. Thank you!! :-) André _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
