Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

[Peter Otten]

Brian van den Broek wrote:

>> # IDLE reads several config files to determine user preferences.  This
>> # file is the default config file for general idle settings.
> 
> <SNIP details of config filenames and purposes>

> Thanks for posting that, Peter. It helped me work out my problem that
> I posted about a few days back <http://tinyurl.com/3s7gn>.

You're welcome.
 
> Could I ask where did you get the content from? I've searched my HDD
> for some of the contained phrases with the Windows tools I have at my
> disposal, but didn't manage to find the text you posted. (If I'd been
> able to find it, I'd have been able to solve my problem days ago.)

I guess the showstopper has been the unusual suffix .def for "default
configuration" :-)

On Linux it's in 

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/idlelib/config-main.def

Should be easy to translate for Windows. 

Peter