running IDLE from another program?

[Kent Johnson]

John Salerno wrote:
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>>One thing that is really useful about running in an editor window is 
>>that (in TextPad, anyway) I can double-click on an error message and go 
>>directly to the line with the error.
> 
> 
> Interesting. The way I have it now, it shows errors the way I want to, 
> but it shows them just in a text file, nothing special, and I don't seem 
> to be able to double-click them. Is this just a feature of TextPad, or 
> did you have to set it up so you can double-click the errors?

mmm, both. TextPad lets me set a regular expression to interpret errors 
as file/line. When that is set correctly the double-clicking works.
> 
>>Try
>>C:\Python24\Lib\idlelib\idle -r C:\path\to\myprog.py
> 
> 
> I tried this but it said it couldn't find idle.pyw (even though it is 
> there).

The working directory must be wrong. Try calling Python directly with 
full paths:

C:\Python24\pythonw C:\Python24\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw -r C:\path\to\myprog.py

Kent