IDLE Config Problems
I am just getting started with Python and have installed v. 2.5.4 Idle version 1.2.4 I can't seem to get the idle to display text. It seems as if the install went fine. I start up the idle and the screen is blank. No text. It seems as if I can type on the screen but I just can't see the characters. I go to the config menu and it bombs and brings up the Visual Studio debugger. The computer that I am trying to install it on is a windows xp laptop serv pack 2. I have a workstation here that I am using also with the same os and the idle works fine. Any hints as to what might be interfering with the idle config. Thanks Russ Russell Davis PP, AICP, GISP GIS Administrator State of New Jersey Pinelands Commission Office of Land Use and Technology GIS Laboratory Po Box 7 New Lisbon, NJ 08064 Phone 609-894-7300 Fax 609-894-7330 russ.da...@njpines.state.nj.us -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: IDLE Config Problems
On Jul 29, 3:55 pm, Russ Davis russ.da...@njpines.state.nj.us wrote: I am just getting started with Python and have installed v. 2.5.4 Idle version 1.2.4 I can't seem to get the idle to display text. It seems as if the install went fine. I start up the idle and the screen is blank. No text. It seems as if I can type on the screen but I just can't see the characters. I go to the config menu and it bombs and brings up the Visual Studio debugger. The computer that I am trying to install it on is a windows xp laptop serv pack 2. I have a workstation here that I am using also with the same os and the idle works fine. Any hints as to what might be interfering with the idle config. just spit balling here, but have you tried a un-install, re-install Bad things can happen to good installers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: IDLE Config Problems
On Jul 30, 6:55 am, Russ Davis russ.da...@njpines.state.nj.us wrote: I am just getting started with Python and have installed v. 2.5.4 Idle version 1.2.4 I can't seem to get the idle to display text. It seems as if the install went fine. I start up the idle and the screen is blank. No text. It seems as if I can type on the screen but I just can't see the characters. Is this the official python.org distribution you're trying? I can't speak from experience, but I'm wondering if it doesn't include the pyreadline module by default, which you'll require under Windows (although I would've expected to hear more problems like your's if this is the case). You can easily check this by going to C: \Python25\Lib\site-packages and looking for a folder or a file called pyreadline. If it's not, you'll have to install it separately. If you're not already familiar with it, I do recommend checking out the ActiveState ActivePython distribution instead, especially if you're working under Windows. It includes a lot of Windows-specific 3rd party modules, such as the win32all modules, and it definitely includes pyreadline. Is there any particular reason why you're opting for Python 2.5.x? 2.6 should be pretty compatible with most things in the 2.x stream and it's a handy stepping stone towards using 3.x (which, admittedly, is probably the last of your concerns when you're first setting up...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
