How to start IDLE Python editor without using the shortcut on Windows Vista

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I m trying to teach Komodo to fire up IDLE when I hit the right keystrokes   I can use the exact path of the shortcut in start menu in the Windows Explorer location bar to launch IDLE so I was hoping Komodo would be able to use it as well   But  giving this path to Komodo causes it to say that 1 is returned   This appears to be a failure as IDLE doesn t start up   I thought I d avoid the shortcut and just use the exact path   I go to the start menu  find the shortcut for IDLE  right click to look at the properties   The target is grayed out  but says  Python 2 5 2    The  Start in  is set to   C  Python25     The  Open File Location  button is also grayed out   How do I find out where this shortcut is really pointing   I have tried starting python exe and pythonw exe both in C  Python25  but neither starts up IDLE

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There s a file called idle py in your Python installation directory in Lib idlelib idle py   If you run that file with Python  then IDLE should start      c  Python25 pythonw exe c  Python25 Lib idlelib idle py

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Python installation folder   Lib   idlelib   idle pyw  Double click on it and you re good to go

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The idle shortcut is an  Advertised Shortcut  which breaks certain features like the  find target  button  Google for more info   You can view the link with a hex editor or download LNK Parser to see where it points to   In my case it runs                 Python27 pythonw exe  C  Python27 Lib idlelib idle pyw

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You can also assign hotkeys to Windows shortcuts directly  at least in Windows 95 you could  I haven t checked again since then  but I think the option should be still there

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In Python 3 2 2  I found  Python32 Lib idlelib idle bat which was useful because it would let me open python files supplied as args in IDLE

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I got a shortcut for Idle  Python GUI      Click on Window icon at the bottom left or use Window Key  only Python 2   you will see Idle  Python GUI  icon Right click on the icon then more Open File Location A new window will appears  and you will see the shortcut of Idle  Python GUI  Right click  hold down and pull out to desktop to create a shortcut of Python GUI on desktop

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Python installation folder   Lib   idlelib   idle pyw  send a shortcut to desktop   From the desktop shortcut you can add it to taskbar too for quickaccess   Hope this helps

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Here s another path you can use   I m not sure if this is part of the standard distribution or if the file is automatically created on first use of the IDLE   C  Python25 Lib idlelib idle pyw

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I setup a short cut  using windows  and set the target to  C  Python36 pythonw exe c  python36 Lib idlelib idle py   works great  Also found this works  with open  FILE py   as f      exec f read

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Another option for Windows that will automatically use the most recent version of Python installed  and also doesn t make you look for the installation path   Target  pyw -m idlelib Start in  Wherever you want

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If you just have a Python shell running  type   import idlelib PyShell idlelib PyShell main

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there is a  bat script to start it  python 2 7    c  Python27 Lib idlelib idle bat

[python] How to start IDLE (Python editor) without using the shortcut on Windows Vista?

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