[Tutor] Idle won't run in Win NT 4

[Daniel Yoo]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ben Smith wrote:

> Help!  I'm a total python newbie, and I'm having trouble getting Idle to run 
> on my NT box.  I downloaded Idle 0.5, thinking it would take care of the 
> problem, but it did not.  Every time I hit the shortcut or double click the 
> .pyw, my cursor gets a small hourglass for about 10 seconds and then nothing 
> happens.  I can't find the process running anywhere.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I've reinstalled twice now with no luck.

Hmm... since you've reinstalled already, I'm assuming it's not a problem
with Python.  However, Python comes with Tk/Tcl as its graphics library,
and since IDLE depends on it, problems most likely are coming from there.  
Try this:

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import Tkinter
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and if you start seeing weird error messages, the problem has to do with
those graphics libraries.  Sorry this isn't more definite.  Email us back
with your results at tutor@python.org, and we'll have a better idea of
what's happening.