On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:43 AM, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Wolfgang Maier > <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: >> On 10/10/2014 05:57 AM, boB Stepp wrote: [...] >> >> It would help if you could share details about how you tried to run the >> Python 3 program (command line call, double-click, Python launcher for >> Windows, ..). >> > Initially, I ran the program in question by double-clicking on its > icon, which was my normal way of running it. This is when I realized I > had a problem. The program would run without error, but give erroneous > print and input statement results. I next put Python 3 into my path > variable, but the same error persisted. From the command line I found > that if I ran it normally (With Python 3 still in the path like it was > on my previous 3.4.1 installation.), meaning > > python program_name.py > > it behaved the same way as double-clicking on the icon. However, if I ran it > as > > py -3 program_name.py > > then all was well. > > Apparently Python 2.7.8 became the system default installation if I > installed it last, but after uninstalling both and installing Python > 3.4.2 last, it became the default. Or, at least when double-clicked on > it ran normally. > > I have since added shebang lines to my programs specifying Python 3. > > I hope I have not forgotten any relevant details! > Apparently I must have forgotten relevant details because I have concluded tonight that I have not solved anything. Despite thinking that I had made Python 3.4.2 my default Python, I am now certain that Python 2.7.8 is, in fact, my current default Python. So switching the order of installation did not work and whatever I did last night in my presumably sleepy or lame state was not what I thought I was doing. If I double-click on a file or icon to run a program, it runs under Python 2.7.8. If I run it from the command line with py program_name.py, then it runs under Python 2.7.8. This is with shebang lines removed from all programs.
So I apologize for what I wrote earlier. I can live with 2.7.8 being the default Python, but if I wanted to make 3.4.2 the default, how would I go about doing it? boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
