W. eWatson wrote: > John Machin wrote: >> On Jan 12, 9:16 pm, "W. eWatson" <notval...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> John Machin wrote: >>>> On Jan 12, 2:00 pm, "W. eWatson" <notval...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>>>> I installed "Python" 2.5 a few months ago with IDLE, and decided >>>>> I'd like to >>>>> try windowpy from ActiveState. Is having both of these installed >>>>> going to >>>>> cause me trouble? >>>> What is "windowpy from ActiveState"? If you mean you wanted to try the >>>> PythonWin IDE instead of IDLE, all you needed to do was go to >>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/hit the big download button >>>> and make sure you get the 2.5 version (it's the default atm) and >>>> install it. >>> Yes, I want to try the PythonWin IDE instead of IDLE. "(DLE" was a typo. >>> >>> Is it possible to just disable the vanilla (IDLE) version? I may want to >>> switch between the two. Most users of the program I'm about to modify >>> use >>> the vanilla version. At some point, I may want to go back to it to >>> verify >>> that in their world all is OK. >> >> I'll try again. All you need is (a) the official distribution of >> Python 2.5 for Windows from http://www.python.org (b) the pywin32 >> package from the URL I gave you. Install both. Click on Start / All >> Programs/ Python 2.5 and will find *BOTH* IDLE and PythonWin. You and/ >> or your users can use IDLE or PythonWin, only one copy of Python, no >> conflicts. Why do you think you need to "disable" IDLE? Just don't use >> it. >> > Once upon a time, six months ago, I asked a similar question and the > answer was more complex. I decided to put this off until I truly needed it. > > Even better than Start, for me, is that I can choose PythonWin or IDLE > from the right-click menu which I want. I do see a choice there of Open > With-> Python. I can see it executed properly, but which 2.5 did it use? > Both IDLE and PythonWin use the same interpreter - neither of them carry their own, and there's only one Python 2.5 available on your system.
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