IDLE has suddenly become FAWLTY - so should I be hitting it with a big stick, or what?

[Twirlip2]

On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:46:55 UTC+1, Terry Reedy  wrote:
> On 8/26/2014 2:01 PM, Twirlip2 wrote:
> 
> > [...]

Here are the aforementioned error messages (sorry, I didn't realise I could simply "select all" and "copy" text from a command window) - I hope the formatting doesn't get messed up. (I haven't used Google Groups in years.)

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "I:\Python34\lib\runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "I:\Python34\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "I:\Python34\lib\idlelib\__main__.py", line 8, in <module>
    import idlelib.PyShell
  File "I:\Python34\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 18, in <module>
    from code import InteractiveInterpreter
  File "E:\Work\Comp\Python\Lib\code.py", line 28
    path = getenv('PYTHONPATH') + r'\'
                                     ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal