[Tutor] Getting Idle to work in Win7

[Prasad, Ramit]

From: tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmchase.com at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmchase.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Walter Prins
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:39 PM
To: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Getting Idle to work in Win7

Hi
On 27 July 2011 22:07, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net<mailto:sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
It's been many months since I played with Python, and have forgotten how to bring up IDLE. If I simply click on a py file, I see what may be a dos window appear and quickly disappear. If I right-click on the file, and select IDLE, the same thing happens. If I go directly to All Programs, the same thing happens when I select IDLE.

There must be something wrong with your Python installation.  Right-click->"Edit with Idle" and starting IDLE from All Programs works fine for me. (Win 7 64-bit, with both Python 2.7 and 3.2 installed.)  I suggest you reinstall Python as a start.  It might also be worthwhile to try to run your Python script from the command line, as well as starting Idle from the command line so you can see what error message might be printed.

Cheers

Walter

Open cmd.exe and then navigate to the directory where Python is installed (C:\Python27) for me and then cd into the Lib\idlelib directory and run idle.bat. Hopefully there should be some errors that show in the window. If not you can try running it "..\..\pythonw.exe idle.pyw" and hopefully that will show the problem.


Ramit


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