[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jul 13 00:00:09 CEST 2010

On 7/12/2010 5:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

Am 12.07.2010 23:21, schrieb Terry Reedy:

On 7/12/2010 5:46 AM, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:

On Windows, IDLE opens when you right click / edit a .py. Very useful. On my xp machine with 3.1.2, it edit .py opens with notepad. Perhaps the installer just copies forward the association from long ago, before IDLE was available, or at least so usable. I have thought of changing that, but I do not know what the replacement incantation would be. There should be an "Edit with IDLE" (sic) context menu item.

I agree, and thought about requesting such, but there is not and never has been for me that I know of. Actually, I would like Edit with IDLE x.y and Run with x.y so it is easy to test a file with different versions.

XP with updates, install for everyone, make install the default Python.

Should I open a tracker issue?

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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