[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Liam Marsh added the comment: thank you for all this hard work. really. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Steve Dower added the comment: I've committed a change that adds a submenu for IDLE almost exactly like Liam's mockup. Thanks for pushing me on this, I probably wouldn't have worked this hard to get something as robust otherwise :) -- ___ Python tr

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Steve Dower added the comment: I'll try, but if it's not feasible now I doubt it will become feasible until the next installer revamp. Completely separate items are certainly okay. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Collapsing multiple 'Edit with Idle x.y' entries into one 'Edit with Idle >' + submenu (or 'Edit with Idle 3 >' + submenu) would be fine once practical to do so. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Steve Dower added the comment: > If you want me to take this request to pydev, I will, but it seems > straightforward to me. "I'll go get Dad" seems a fairly immature threat and it's really not necessary. However, (after writing and then deleting a long exposition of the options) the most rel

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Some people use Windows Explorer as their default means for working with programs and files, including Python via Idle and their own .py files. What some need, as I said previously, is an explicit 'Edit with Idle x.y' for each installed Python. They need this

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Steve Dower added the comment: Also, that should be "py -3 -m idlelib.idle %1" so we get the actual latest IDLE from the context menu. (This does not affect the start menu items at all.) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Steve Dower added the comment: I believe so. py.exe doesn't provide the -m option, so it has already selected the version by the time that starts running. Shebangs are really just for launching the file directly. python -m on Linux will also ignore the shebang. -- __

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

Liam Marsh added the comment: er... is the fact that py -m ignore 's shebang deliberate? (using the 3.4.2 version of py.exe) -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue23546] Windows, 'Edit withIDLE', and multiple installed versions

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