Compatibility Issues - Windows 8

[blakemalc66 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 9:36:20 PM UTC+11, Marcos Almeida Azevedo wrote:
> Hi, Iris
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> Did you try installing via msi installer?  Example https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.3/python-3.4.3rc1.msi
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjr... at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 2/23/2015 10:56 PM, Iris J Rosario wrote:
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> I've been having problems with running python IDLE on my Windows 8
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> tower. Can you please let me know where I can rea up on how to correct
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> How did you install Python?  How are you trying to run Idle?
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> Marcos | I love PHP, Linux, and Java
Hi all

I too can not get idle to run on win 8.1 using python3.4.2 installed from the python-3.4.2.amd64.msi.

pythonw.exe appears in the task manager but no gui is displayed. 

Cheers

Malcolm