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[Gregor Lingl]

Jeff Peery schrieb:

> hi, I have a little problem. I'm just learning python and I downloaded 
> the latest windows installer 2.3.3 I ran the executable and installed 
> everything correctly.  I'm running widows xp.  the programs are all in 
> the start menu, I can see the command line executable and the IDLE 
> executable and the help files.  all of these things work except for 
> the IDLE executable.  If I choose it, my computer thinks for a bit 
> (the hour glass shows up) then nothing happens???? any ideas of how I 
> can make it work? thanks!!
>  

Hi Jeff!

This is not a little problem since IDLE is a very useful tool when 
learning Python.
Try the following: localize the directory where idle.py is stored.
If you did a standard install it should be

C:\Python23\Lib\idlelib

else there are probably another drive and/or some dirs preceding the 
Python23.

Open a cmd - window,  go to the idlelib - dir:

c:>cd \Python23\Lib\idlelib

Then let Python execute idle:

c:\Python23\Lib\idlelib> c:\Python23\python idle.py

What happens? Do you get an error message? Which one?
Let us know.

Gregor

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