Dennis,

> Based upon the date, that looks a lot like it is based on NOOBS 3.2.0

Phew ...  I'm glad it looks that way, as that is what it says in the
filename. :-)

> I still have that archived with a download date of July 12.

The file I have archived has a date of 27 september.

> while the full NOOBS is September 30

Hmmm...  Mine is a full version (I don't like to depend on other people
keeping stuff available for me), which than should not be possible.

> However it was set "chmod +x" so had the flags that said it was an
> executable.

That only helps when it can figure out what to execute it with.  AFAIK you
can set the execute bit on a textfile, but that doesn't cause it to
bexecuted by ... something.

> And typing ./test1.py in a console does execute it.

Which makes me suspect that the console and the desktop use different
methods to figure out what kind of file they are dealing with (and thus
which program they should start it with).

> Thonny seems to be the foundation's preferred Python IDE (ignoring
> IDLE -- as I always do ).

The desktops "programming" group shows both thonny as well as mu. No hint of
IDLE (if that is a programs name).  And files with the pyton3 shebang are
coupled to mu, not thonny (have to figure out how to change that some day
too).

> "mu" is described as a beginning editor for Python

Thonny describes itself as the same.     No idea how they are different
though, as I tend to stick with what works for me.    And to be honest, I
currently use it as a text editor which a launch capability.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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