Mike Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote of an idle IDLE: > That rooted out the problem. A while ago, I changed the colors to kind > of match my VIM color theme(ps_color). When I did > idlelib.PyShell.main(), IDLE came up with my custom color theme. > However, there was a bunch of warnings about my theme. From IDLE, I > deleted the theme. Now IDLE will launch normally. I'll set up the color > > theme later. Maybe older color themes aren't compatible with the newer > IDLE? The color theme must have been laying around. I didn't brute > force > it in or anything like that. >
> >IDLE is a > >part of the Standard Library, so it's actually possible to try turning > on > >individual pieces of it, one after the other. Maybe that will help us > >debug what's going on. > > > >Start up your console version of Python, and try: > > > > > >>>>import idlelib.PyShell > >>>>idlelib.PyShell.main() > >>>> Just a +1 to Mike's problem (and the solution). For sake of Googlers searching on error output (which I've done before), here are the errors I was getting on my machine when trying to launch IDLE. Note, when I tried to open a .py file with IDLE the file would not open at all (and there were no error messages) - interesting that the whole process failed - is the missing error handling on the win or python side (no reason for these to have been fatal errors...) Ah, now I can enjoy 2.4. Thanks! my error output (win32): >>> import idlelib.PyShell >>> idlelib.PyShell.main() Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-background' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#ffffff' Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-foreground' from theme 'sagecomments'. returning default value: '#000000' _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor