Idle won't start

[Kerry Neilson]

"remco" <remco at localhost> wrote in message news:<3fdd8a7e$0$214$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>...
> >kmneilso at yahoo.com (Kerry Neilson) writes:
> >
> >> For the past couple of months, Idle won't start when I invoke it.  I
> >> am at a complete loss for why this is.  When this happens, they python
> >> command line still starts, and python works fine otherwise.
> >> Most interesting to me is that a reboot won't fix the problem.  But if
> >> I just try it again sometime later it will work.  Anyone have any
> >> ideas?  I'm running python 2.3 on windows 2000 professional.
> 
> Have you tried running it from the command line?
> like: <your python dir>\lib\idlelib\idle.py
> and see if it produces any error messages?
> 
> Cheers!
> Remco Boerma

Yes.  When idle won't work, even calling it from the cmd line doesn't
work.  It's difficult to debug because it's inconsistent.  It's
working fine at the moment.