On 20/03/06, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the browser tries to execute the script you will need to go to > > the file types setting in the browser and set .py to plain-text. > > > > This is what I need to do ... but, after looking at all the options > > (within tools->Options), I still can not find a way to do this; > > Neither can I! How odd. > > > firefox-snafu: when I try to open a file in "my document", firefox > > splits up the path, interprets the request as a series of files to > > open, and start to open a number of totally unrelated webpages. > > You probably need to mess around with quotes. > > Something like "%1" after the exectuable name might do it > %1 is DOS shorthand for the name of the file... Putting it in > quotes should stop Firefox splitting the path. > > > Thanks for your help, anyway; I'll stick to opening them with an editor > > for now. > > You've got me curious how to do this in Firefox now :-)
On Windows, Go to Run then type Regedit. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and find .py then change it's Content Type to text/plain. As far as I am aware this is the default for python files anyway, but it may have got changed on your computer. Firefox itself doesn't have a list of MimeTypes under normal circumstances. It's mimetypes.rdf is generally empty except for references to online lists of mimetypes. (It's stored in your profile btw, usually [your profile]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\) Ed _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor