Running Idle on Windows 8 (.1)

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/24/2015 3:13 PM, blakemalc66 at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

What experience have others had with Idle and Windows 8?

The OP for
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28633690/python-installation-troubleshooting

wrote in a comment "I am invoking it from a win8 startmenu program, so I 
tried to do it via the normal windows 8 interface and it works from there,"

I do not know what 'normal windows 8 interface' means, but does it work 
for anyone else?

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

pythonw.exe should appear *twice* in task manager.
Please try 3.4.3rc1 and 3.5.0a1
https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

If the Idle does not start correctly on Win 8, perhaps we could fix it 
before 3.4.3 final (which should be soon).

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy