[Tutor] Ptyhon GUI doubt

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed Aug 26 09:38:18 CEST 2009


"Reddy Etikela, Rajasekhar" <Rajasekhar.ReddyEtikela at qwest.com> wrote

> I am new to the Python. I have installed Python 2.6.2 version in windows 
> XP.
> When I try to open the IDLE(Python GUI), getting the below message.

Others have advised what to do for IDLE but since you are on XP I'd
strongly recommend using Pythonwin instead of IDLE.

If you downloaded Python from the python.org web site you need to
download and install the additional Windows package and inside that
you will find Pythonwin. This is a more powerful IDE than IDLE with
several useful Windows specific extras. Find it here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/

Select the version corresponding to your version of Python..

If you got your Python from activestate.com then pythonwin is already 
included.
In fact I'd go so far as to recommend dumping the python.org installation
and getting the activestate version. It has a whole bunch of extras 
including
all of the python documentation in Windows help format.

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ 




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