In article <f560b9ba-c74d-4a90-84b8-a08de495a...@mac.com>, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote: > On 13 Nov, 2012, at 8:53, Christian Calderon > <calderon.christian...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was trying to use IDLE today, and it tried to open and then suddenly > > closed. I tried a few times to make sure it wasn't a fluke, but it didn't > > start. It worked perfectly before today. So I deleted a whole bunch of > > python2.7 files, and reinstalled python from the binary. Still doesn't > > work. Earlier today I installed tcl8.4.19, which i compiled with '-arch > > ppc64'. So i tried installing the Activestate universal version over it, > > and I assumed that would fix things, but it didn't help! I can still start > > IDLE from the terminal, using the command 'idle', or using 'python -m > > idlelib.idle'. Does anyone have any ideas as to what's going wrong? Did I > > break something with the ppc64 tcl install? > > You can start IDLE.app from the commandline as well using > "/path/to/IDLE.app/Contents/MacOS/IDLE" as the command (where "/path/to" > should be replaced by the directory where IDLE.app is located). > > This shows the stdout/stderr of IDLE.app in the terminal window, and with > some luck this shows why it won't open anymore.
Also, check the system log in Console.app. -- 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
