Re: [Tutor] Trouble installing Python on Win7 (not a valid Win 32 app)

[Wayne Watson]

... Now I believe I see your problem... Your "usual error message" was, I believe , that (x) is not a valid Win32 app.  Python scripts are NOT Win32 apps - and IDLE itself is a Python script.  You need to tell Windows to open .py files with IDLE, but first you need to tell Windows to open IDLE itself with Python.  Sounds like a job for... a batch file! Fortunately, there already is one.  Try assigning .py files to \Python25\Lib\idlelib\idle.bat instead. I tried the bat approach. As far as I can tell nothing has changed.  Same msg if I try to open a py file with idle.pyw.   It's been awhile since I used a bat file, but what are the %s for? Usually, they are arguments. Was I supposed to supply them? I used: C:\Python25\Lib\idlelib>idle.bat C:\Python25\Lib\idlelib>   If for some reason it doesn't exist, you can create one with the following contents: @echo off rem Start IDLE using the appropriate Python interpreter set CURRDIR=%~dp0 start "IDLE" "%CURRDIR%..\..\pythonw.exe" "%CURRDIR%idle.pyw" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet "My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." -- Physiologist and Geneticist J.B.S. Haldane 1860-1936 (Maybe not, Dr. Haldane. We have an amazing imagination) Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

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