Drag and drop onto Python script in Windows Explorer

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Sure. From a mindless technology article called “Make Python Scripts Droppable in Windows”, you can add a drop handler by adding a registry key:

Here’s a registry import file that you can use to do this. Copy the
following into a .reg file and run it
(Make sure that your .py extensions
are mapped to Python.File).

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\shellex\DropHandler]
@="{60254CA5-953B-11CF-8C96-00AA00B8708C}"

This makes Python scripts use the WSH drop handler, which is compatible with long filenames. To use the short filename handler, replace the GUID with 86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D.

A comment in that post indicates that one can enable dropping on “no console Python files (.pyw)” or “compiled Python files (.pyc)” by using the Python.NoConFile and Python.CompiledFile classes.

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