Here's something that usually works for me. Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and select the process list (task manager). Look for a process named pythonw.exe (the 'w' is essential). Terminate it. Then IDLE should run again.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:54:25 -0800, Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have had complaints from a few students running Python under Windows > that they can't get things running. All seem to take the form: > 1. At some point, Python/IDLE under Windows crashed. > 2. IDLE won't run at all after that. > 3. The regular interpreter will run (python.exe). > 4. Uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't help. > > Does anybody have any idea what to do about this? (Or who to ask?) I > haven't been able to reproduce it to test, but it has happened to > several students independantly. > > -- > Greg Baker, Lecturer > School of Computing Science > Simon Fraser University > Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
