Issue 1022010: wrong options are set to python.exe (original) (raw)

When I tried to run a script(just double-clicked it) with Python 2.4 on Win 2000, I ran into an error message:

C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c test.py Unknown option: -n usage: C:\Python24\python.exe [option] ... [-c cmd | file | -] [arg] ... Try `python -h' for more information. shell returned 2 Hit any key to close this window...

The problem seems to be the associations of Python related file types.

In this case, "Python file" (Extension is ".py") is associated with two actions:

If you look at the "Application used to perform action" text box of 'open', you can see: "C:\Python24\python.exe" -n -e "%1"

But neither -n nor -e is a valid option for python.exe and it results in an error message. These options are for IDLE! Line #1016 to #1020 of mis.py may be relevant to this.

Tools/msi/mis.py

add_data(db, "MIME") XXX

add_data(db, "Verb", [("py", "open", 1, None, r'-n -e "%1"'), ("pyw", "open", 1, None, r'-n -e "%1"'), ("pyc", "open", 1, None, r'-n -e "%1"'), ("pyo", "open", 1, None, r'-n -e "%1"')])

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Hi, Martin.

Your fix doesn't look enough for me. I tried a new installer but noticed that all command-line argumetns(install, --help, etc) are ignored.

I think adding %* after "%1" is necessary.

Then the file association to .py files looks like: "C:\Python24\python.exe" "%1" % or "C:\Python24\python.exe" -console "%1" %* # CVS HEAD

Thanks in advance.