IDLE won't launch, and other frustrations

[David MacQuigg]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:12:53 -0500, "Michael A. Covington"
<look at www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address> wrote:

>All looks good except - IDLE won't start at all!!!  I try to launch it, get
>a few seconds of the hourglass cursor, and it's gone, with nothing on the
>screen and no processes running!
>
>Rebooting didn't cure this.  What gives?

This is a common problem with lots of causes.  Do a Google search on
'start IDLE group:comp.lang.python'

Here is one good thread:
IDLE won't start 13-Oct-2003
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=9b4l30tn66bhni11hdatu8ot7uvpme8h13%404ax.com&rnum=10&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dstart%2BIDLE%2Bgroup:comp.lang.python%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3D9b4l30tn66bhni11hdatu8ot7uvpme8h13%25404ax.com%26rnum%3D10

In spite of these problems, I'm very happy with IDLE.  Once you get it
working, it is ideal for students.  I also use it in my development
work, along with Qt Designer for the GUI part.

-- Dave