Idle 2.3.4 won't start on Windows

[Sven Erik Knop]

Bingo

uninstalled Ruby and everything is fine. That'll teach me looking at
Japanese software ;-)

Thanks guys

Sven Erik

"Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> [Sven Erik Knop]
> > probably an old problem, but maybe you can help me:
> >
> > Just installed Python 2.3.4 on Windows XP SP1, and although the
interpreter
> > runs fine, IDLE will not start.
> >
> > Any ideas how to solve this?
>
> One step at a time.
>
> The most common reason for IDLE not running on Windows is that the
> user installed Ruby.  The Ruby Windows installer is a bad citizen,
> setting environment variables that prevent other apps from using Tk.
> Did you install Ruby?
>
> Open a DOS box, cd to your Python directory, and try this:
>
> C:\Python23>python
> Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> Tkinter._test()
>
> What happens?
>