On 25/10/2014 23:48, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 10/25/2014 2:23 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:38:31 -0400, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> declaimed the following:
I do get the difference. I don't actually use Python 2. I use
CodeSkulptor. I do have Python 3 installed. Actually I have Python 2
installed but IDLE defaults to Python 3.
This is wrong. Pythonx.y runs Idlex.y, not vice versa.
Seymore installed some version of Python 3 as default, as he should
have, and 'Edit with Idle' opens the default version of Python, with its
version of Idle.
>> So it is a pain to actually load Python 2.
Not really, neither on linux or Windows.
So don't use Idle...
Since Seymore analysis is wrong, this advice in not the answer.
If he is running on Windows, it is dubious in that the Windows console
interpreter is a pain to use.
> Open up a Windows command shell and invoke Python
without giving a script file to execute.
C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>python
python -m idlelib will open the corresponding Idle. So will the Start
menu entry or an icon pinned to the taskbar.
C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>python3
You must have done something extra to make this work on Windows.
The Python launcher for Windows should be taken into account here
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/
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