>Can you select Properties for that icon and change it so it doesn't close >the window automatically when the program terminates? > >Or is this just using the default settings after you've installed Python, >in which case it's being run using the assocation for the .py file extension? >In that case, you should go to Explorer, under View->Folder Options. Then >click the File Types tab, scroll down until you find the entry for the Python >files (make sure you use .py or .pyw as appropriate), then click on Edit, >then on Run in the Actions area, then on Edit. You should then see, in about > >the 19th dialog that has popped up (isn't Windows wonderful?! Truly those at >Microsoft are masters of good user interface design!), the actual command >that is being executed when you click on the icon. I suspect it uses the >directory that the .py file is in as the current directory, and it should >show an absolute path to where it thinks Python should be, then something >like "%1" %* which roughly means execute the file using the exact command >plus the filename in quotation marks. I suspect the %* does nothing in most >cases. > >If you can then go to the DOS prompt in the same directory, and type the >same command, and everything works.... well then you've got a problem on >your hands, don't you? ;-) (But let us know more, then, as there are >doubtless other steps to take.) > >-Peter > > > > > > Thanks to everybody for the help. It turns out that there are two separate python programs associated with the .py extention in windows. I have installed Python 2.3 over 2.22 and 2.0 without removing any of the previous versions. This is a numerical program using psyco (only available with the 2.3 installation. When I comment out the psyco import, it runs the double clicked icon OK. Thanks again to everybody for the help. Wendell Cropper
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