IDLE won't run

hg hg at nospam.com
Thu Oct 12 15:26:34 EDT 2006


Rob wrote:
> I have Python 2.4.3 installed on Windows XP on both a real computer and a 
> virtual machine under VMware. Just recently, IDLE stopped working. I would 
> select IDLE from the start menu or right click on a .PY file and open it in 
> IDLE, but nothing happens. I just uninstalled Python on the virtual machine 
> and installed 2.5 in the hope that that would fix the problem, but it 
> didn't. It, too, would do nothing when I tried to run IDLE. In both cases, 
> the Python command line window will come up, but that's not what I want to 
> use.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? Is there a new Windows 
> update that is now interfering with IDLE? Would Norton Antivirus be 
> interfering with it somehow? (It's running in both environments.)



What kind of error do you see by calling idle from the command line (ex:
 "c:\....\python.exe c:\....\idle.py"



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