Re: A switch somewhere, or bug? CORRECTION

On 12/4/2025 1:25 PM, Em wrote:
> 
> Two computers, both alike in dignity, in fair windows land, where we set our
> scene......
> 
> in Win10/Python 3.13 my program runs as well as can be expected. However, on
> my new computer Win11/Python 3.14.1 there is a peculiarity.
> 
> On the new machine, when I click on the file name, it immediately dumps out.
> I go in with IDLE and it runs fine with no indication of any error.
> 
> I believe this line is the culprit:
> Starter = open("HLYlog.txt", "w")
> 
> Thoughts appreciated.

When you write "when I click on the file name", do you mean you find the 
Python file in Windows Explorer and then doubleclick on it? Can you 
start it in a console by typing (without the angle brackets, of course)

py <full path to file>

I suspect that what is happening is that a new console window opens, the 
program runs, and then the new console terminates and vanishes 
immediately. That's what happens on My Windows 11 system.

With the pre-Windows 11 file association system it was fairly easy to 
deal with this since it was easy to find a modify the launch command 
that Windows would use.  On Windows 11 the way programs are associated 
to files has changed and it seems to be much harder to change things. 
You wouldn't realize the change when (double)clicking on a program's 
name in Explorer for GUI programs that don't finish.  It's only when you 
try to run a command-line program that terminates that the difference 
shows up.

In Windows 11, you can change file associations in Settings/default 
apps. You could write a batch file that launches the file on the command 
line with Python, then stays around after the program ends. Then make 
that batch file the default app for .py files.

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