One thing that causes IDLE to crash in this bad way is when a student kills the shell window when the program that it is executing is waiting for interactive input. This is a bug for which a patch is now available, but has not yet been incorporated into the Python release. You can get a fix for this particular problem from my page:
http://mcsp.wartburg.ed/zelle/python
The information on patching IDLE is at the very bottom.
I think with this patch IDLE has become quite stable again under Windows. Sadly, I'm now having troubles with random lock-ups when running on a Debian Linux Testing distribution. I think it's a problem with one of the Debian libraries, but have not yet been able to pin it down.
--John
Guido van Rossum wrote:
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]
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