Disable double click on .py files

Question

I have a bunch a python scripts inside a folder with other files. I'm running them from batch file in order. Problem is that those are all .py files that you can run just by double click and if I accidentally run any of them it will mess everything up. Is there any way to disable double click for .py files but still be able to run them from cmd/batch.

I have python 3.9.5 and Windows 10 1909.

Answer 1

Is there any way to disable double click for .py files but still be able to run them from cmd/batch?

I believe the only solution for disabling double-click execution is to disassociate the .py file extension from Python entirely. How you might go about that could be different depending on what Python distribution you have installed (for instance, with CPython from python.org, py.exe is typically what manages Python script execution, rather than a direct Windows association between a given python.exe and .py files).

Regarding cmd\batch execution, that would simply be e.g.:

C:\path\to\your\python.exe script.py option1 option2 ...

That is, double-click and cmd\batch execution are completely separate, just as with non-py files.

If you have a preferred version of Python available at the command line (e.g. as python), then you could likely use that in place of the full path to python.exe.