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Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson

Reputation: 686

Python Drag-and-drop broken

I recently installed pywin (I had to change a registry entry to do it, but I changed it back). I also uninstalled Python 2.7, and since then, I can no longer drag and drop files onto my python scripts. I also lost my file associations.

I have since uninstalled, reinstalled, run CCleaner on my registry, I've tried setting the default program to C:\Python3\Python.exe, C:\Python\Pythonw.exe, C:\Windows\py.exe, C:\Windows\pyw.exe, I've restarted my computer, but dragging files onto my script still doesn't work.

I've gone through a ton of StackOverflow questions, most of them are from almost 10 years ago and don't seem to be relevant anymore. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

I also tried this but it didn't help

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3593

Answers (1)

Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson

Reputation: 686

I poked around in the registry and fixed it by doing the following things (not sure which were necessary and which weren't)

First, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.py and make sure the value is set to Python.File

Then go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\Shell\Open and create a key called "Command" with

"C:\Windows\py.exe" "%1" %*

as its value. I did the same to CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\py.exe\open\command

Then go to CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\ShellEx and create a key called "DropHandler" with

{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}

as its value. that value is the CLSID of a DLL that gets the filename of the file you're dragging and runs it in command, I think?

Upvotes: 2

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