In article <blu0-smtp202ce31c5860bb7639db113fa...@phx.gbl>, Catena Duscio <catena.dus...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have downloaded python 3.1 many times in the last coupe of days and each > time I can not get the IDLE to open.
If you have downloaded Python 3.1.3 from the python.org website, try launching IDLE from a terminal shell window instead of double-clicking. In the shell, type: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin/idle3.1 If it fails, there should be a traceback printed which may give a clue as to the problem. If it does not, then quit IDLE and launch by double-clicking on IDLE.app in the Finder. You will then need to look in the system.log to see any error messages if IDLE fails to launch. The Console.app in /Applications/Utilities makes that easy to do. One recently reported problem with IDLE 3.x is that it can crash if its Recent Files list contains files with non-ascii characters in their path names. That can happen if you were using IDLE 2.x with such files, where this is no problem. A workaround is to simply delete the recent file list before launching IDLE 3.x: rm ~/.idlerc/recent-files.lst The problem and a fix for it is here: http://bugs.python.org/issue10974 -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
