When I open the Console after IDLE launch failure, it says: Dock: LSOpenFromURLSpec(file:///Users/Michal/Scripting/1.%20IDLE%202.7) failed with -10810
p. > On Jun 19, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Petr Tvrdik <petr.tvr...@genetics.utah.edu> > wrote: > > Hello, > > I have tried: > > cd ~ > sudo rm -rf .idlerc > cd Desktop > /usr/local/bin/idle2.7 > > and I got: > > MacBook-Tanya:Desktop Michal$ /usr/local/bin/idle2.7 > -bash: /usr/local/bin/idle2.7: Permission denied > > I have also reset ownership > > sudo chown Michal /Users/Michal/ > > but IDLE still cannot be opened > > please help if you can > > thank you > > petr > > >> On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:38 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: >> >> [Petr, please reply to the mailing list, not directly to me, so that others >> can contribute to or benefit from the discussion. Thanks!] >> >> On Jun 18, 2015, at 08:46, Petr Tvrdik <ptvr...@genetics.utah.edu> wrote: >>> I have noticed that even inside my /usr/local/bin/ directory, idle2.7 or >>> idle3.4 commands do not work >>> however, when I use ’sudo idle2.7’ or ’sudo idle3.4’ both work flawlessly >>> with the new ActiveTcl >>> so my problem seems to be more related to root privileges and unix folder >>> structure perhaps >> >> Are you by any chance trying to launch idle when you have changed your >> working directory to /usr/local/bin? You shouldn't do that. >> >> Try the following: >> >> cd ~ >> sudo rm -rf .idlerc >> cd Desktop >> /usr/local/bin/idle2.7 >> >> and see if that works. You should never have to run idle undo sudo and you >> never should! >> >> -- >> Ned Deily >> n...@acm.org -- [] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tkinter-discuss mailing list >> Tkinter-discuss@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss > _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss