[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Chris
Chris ceonnbo...@yahoo.com added the comment: Can you please guide me step by step - how and where exactly do I open a command prompt?   --- On Mon, 3/7/11, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc rep...@bugs.python.org Subject: [issue11413] Idle

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: - Click the Start button - On this menu, click the Run... item (almost at the bottom) - In the small windows that opens, type cmd and click OK. This opens the command prompt. - In this window, type: c:\python32\python.exe -m

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Chris
 Â Â  invoked from within uplevel #0 [list source $tclfile] This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly. --- On Tue, 3/8/11, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc rep...@bugs.python.org Subject: [issue11413] Idle doesn't start To: ceonnbo

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: You certainly have a TCL_LIBRARY environment variable set on your system, it should be removed. For detailed instructions: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-April/1241061.html --

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Chris
] Idle doesn't start To: ceonnbo...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 10:43 AM Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: You certainly have a TCL_LIBRARY environment variable set on your system, it should be removed.  For detailed instructions: http://mail.python.org/pipermail

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Chris
Chris ceonnbo...@yahoo.com added the comment: Sent previous message before it was finished, will resend, got to go now though. --- On Tue, 3/8/11, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc rep...@bugs.python.org Subject: [issue11413] Idle doesn't start

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Chris: I appreciate you wanting use IDLE. I love it, hope to improve it, and am sorry that people occasionally have a problem starting it. However, this is not a bug report but a usage question that would better have been posted to our

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: It also appears that you are submitting messages as HTML rather than plain text. Hence the junk 'unknown' files. Please do not do that. (Messages to a mailing list or newsgroup should also be plain text.) --

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file21038/unnamed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11413 ___

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file21048/unnamed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11413 ___

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file21049/unnamed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11413 ___

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file21050/unnamed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11413 ___

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-08 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file21051/unnamed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11413 ___

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-07 Thread Victor
Victor victoryw...@yahoo.com added the comment: How do you try to open the IDLE? For example, I open it from the start menu, python3.2. When you try to double click on a .py file, it is normal to see what you describe. -- nosy: +victorywin ___

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-07 Thread Chris
. Nothing works.   The python (command line) opens, and python manuals, but not idle or module docs. --- On Mon, 3/7/11, Victor rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: From: Victor rep...@bugs.python.org Subject: [issue11413] Idle doesn't start To: ceonnbo...@yahoo.com Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 1:33 PM

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-07 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: Can you open a command prompt, and type: c:\python32\python.exe -m idlelib.idle If there are messages, please paste them here! -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Python tracker

[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

2011-03-06 Thread Chris
New submission from Chris ceonnbo...@yahoo.com: Hi, I just installed Python 3.1.1 via link in the book Python Programming for the absolute beginner third edition. But Idle won't start. When I try to open Idle the Windows hourglass just flash briefly but nothing happens after that. No error