Just a guess, but I think you need to be using at least Python 2.4 if you are going to use IDLE version 2.4.4-2.
On Dec 20, 1:16 pm, altern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > when i try to run IDLE on my debian laptop I get this error. > > $ idle > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/idle", line 5, in ? > main() > File "idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1359, in main > File "idlelib/FileList.py", line 44, in new > File "idlelib/PyShell.py", line 105, in __init__ > File "idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 111, in __init__ > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2764, in __init__ > Widget.__init__(self, master, 'text', cnf, kw) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1865, in __init__ > self.tk.call( > _tkinter.TclError: expected integer but got "`100" > > I am not sure about what could cause the problem because I didnt use my > laptop for python programming for couple of weeks. Before that it worked > fine. And on that period i might have installed few things. > > I am running Debian unstable with python 2.2.4, tcl8.4, tk8.4, python-tk > 24.4-1 and IDLE 2.4.4-2. I already tried to reinstall IDLE, tk and tcl > and python-tk but that did not solve anything, i keep getting the same > error. > > any ideas? > > thanks > > enrike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list