On 5/25/07, Denis Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hello to all,

   An implementation problem has appeared on my Mac PowerBook G4
with French Mac OS X 10.4.9. I have used Python IDLE.app, and,
since then, my MCL 5.1 (Macintosh Common LISP) environment is
not functioning properly.
   I'm not a sophisticated user of Python, and used to open
PythonIDE for my ordinary limited usage. In fact, I've launched
IDLE.app rather inadvertently!

Symptoms:
- a double click on the MCL 5.1 icon launches the Macintosh
  Script Editor, which protests not finding a dictionary, and then
  opens a gibberish window bearing the MCL 5.1 name and icon
  (cf. attached file ScriptEd.jpg)
- a <ctrl>-click on the MCL 5.1 application shows it is set to be
  opened by IDLE.app by default! However, it launches the Script
  Editor


[snip]

This is very strange. IDLE doesn't do anything sophisticated to a user's
environment AFAIK. And running it certainly doesn't change file
associations. Perhaps this is something with the OSX Python installer? Or an
OSX bug?

IDLE only uses a few files which are specific to idle, and saved under an
.idlerc directory, which is created when IDLE is first run. Perhaps the
creation of this directory somehow corrupted something, but I fail to
imagine how this could be.

I don't use Mac though, so I can't really help you out...

- Tal
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