Patricia Irwin <plir...@gmail.com> added the comment: Hi,
I'm running Windows XP Professional and just installed Python 2.6. I installed it for all users. Tried starting up IDLE and nothing happened. I read the boards here, and it looks like others have had similar troubles. I read on this board that moving the Tcl/Tk directories helped, so I tried moving the tcl8.5 and tk8.5 directories to C:\Python26\Lib, but IDLE still wouldn't start up. (So I moved them back.) I opened a command shell and tried running idle that way. I will paste the output below. Could someone help with this? Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this problem; I am Python newbie. C:\Python26>python Lib\idlelib\idle.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "Lib\idlelib\idle.py", line 21, in <module> idlelib.PyShell.main() File "C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 1400, in main shell = flist.open_shell() File "C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 279, in open_shell self.pyshell = PyShell(self) File "C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 820, in __init__ OutputWindow.__init__(self, flist, None, None) File "C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\OutputWindow.py", line 16, in __init__ EditorWindow.__init__(self, *args) File "C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\EditorWindow.py", line 234, in __init__ self.update_recent_files_list() File "C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\EditorWindow.py", line 755, in update_recent_fil es_list rf_file = open(self.recent_files_path, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Tricia\\.idl erc\\recent-files.lst' ---------- nosy: +pi versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4049> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com