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Title: No "edit with IDLE" in right click context menu
Type: behavior Stage: needs patch
Components: Installation, Windows Versions: Python 3.2
process
Status: closed Resolution: not a bug
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: Matthias.Schreiber, brian.curtin, ezio.melotti, loewis, ned.deily, tim.golden
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2011-10-19 17:22 by Matthias.Schreiber, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg145924 - (view) Author: Matthias Schreiber (Matthias.Schreiber) Date: 2011-10-19 17:22
I dont have the context menu "edit with IDLE" anymore.
I installed Python 3.2 first and then 2.7
I tried to open a .py file that's written with 3.2, but it were opened with the 2.7 IDLE.
So I uninstalled 2.7 and tried to open it again.
Now the context menu were missed.
I tried to open it over "Open with..." with other applications.
I re-installed 3.2 and also repaired it, but the "edit with IDLE" is still not there.
msg145973 - (view) Author: Ned Deily (ned.deily) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-10-19 21:54
This sounds like an issue with Windows installation rather than an IDLE issue.
msg145974 - (view) Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-10-19 21:57
> I installed Python 3.2 first and then 2.7
This probably made 2.7 the default Python.

> I tried to open a .py file that's written with 3.2,
> but it were opened with the 2.7 IDLE.
So this is normal.

> So I uninstalled 2.7 and tried to open it again.
> Now the context menu were missed.
The uninstallation process probably removed the context menu.  If the 2.7 entry overrode the 3.2 one, once it's remove there are no entries left.

> I tried to open it over "Open with..." with other applications.
> I re-installed 3.2 and also repaired it, but the "edit with IDLE" is still not there.
If the installation process adds the "Open with IDLE" entry, it should do it again when you reinstall -- unless something got corrupted somehow during when 2.7 got installed on removed.
msg146073 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-10-21 09:38
> If the installation process adds the "Open with IDLE" entry, it should do it again when you reinstall

Rather than going through reinstallation, go to "Add and Remove
Programs", find Python 3.2, and select "Repair installation."

Closing the report as invalid.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:57:22adminsetgithub: 57430
2011-10-21 09:39:07loewissetstatus: open -> closed
resolution: not a bug
2011-10-21 09:38:53loewissetmessages: + msg146073
2011-10-19 21:57:06ezio.melottisetnosy: + ezio.melotti
messages: + msg145974

type: behavior
stage: needs patch
2011-10-19 21:54:50ned.deilysetnosy: + loewis, tim.golden, brian.curtin, ned.deily
messages: + msg145973
components: + Installation, Windows, - IDLE
2011-10-19 17:22:44Matthias.Schreibercreate