[Tutor] Getting Idle to work in Win7

[Alan Gauld]

Wayne Watson wrote:

> I tried from the command line to run pythonw.exe, and that gave me the typical 
>  >>> input choice. Python at least works at that level. IDLE comes up with idle.pyw.

Don't run pythonw to catch bugs, use python (no w).

>> 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.

HTH,

Alan G.