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Author	eryksun
Recipients	eryksun, ned.deily, niacdoial, steve.dower, terry.reedy, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2015-03-15.12:24:29
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Message-id	<1426422269.69.0.921761485776.issue23546@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I'd prefer to be able to list them all under the Open With menu, > since that also allows users to easily make any of them the > default if that's what they'd like. Unfortunately, to do that > we need to start shipping an EXE launcher, probably with a > unique name (e.g. idle35-32.exe). Can't you just create a ProgID, e.g. IDLE_3.5, that defines the "open" verb, and add this to the OpenWithProgIds subkey for .py and .pyw? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh127445%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

> I'd prefer to be able to list them all under the Open With menu, 
> since that also allows users to easily make any of them the 
> default if that's what they'd like. Unfortunately, to do that 
> we need to start shipping an EXE launcher, probably with a 
> unique name (e.g. idle35-32.exe).

Can't you just create a ProgID, e.g. IDLE_3.5, that defines the "open" verb, and add this to the OpenWithProgIds subkey for .py and .pyw?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh127445%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

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Date	User	Action	Args
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