New submission from Thomas Kember: I am a retired programmer. I still like to write small programs for my own interest. Python is ideal for this. I prefer to use Idle rather than the command line. For some time now when I click on the Idle shortcut on the home screen, the command line screen flashes and then nothing. I am not able to do anything on Idle. I had been using Python33. So I upgraded to Python34. It was the same thing. I looked at the batch file, idle.bat. This is what it contains.
@echo off rem Start IDLE using the appropriate Python interpreter set CURRDIR=%~dp0 start "IDLE" "%CURRDIR%..\..\pythonw.exe" "%CURRDIR%idle.pyw" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 I don't understand what %~dp0 means. I can't think what changes I have made to the operating system, it is Windows 7, that could cause this problem. As I say Python is great for what I do. But I am stuck with the command line if I cannot fix this. Tomk ---------- messages: 222916 nosy: Tomk priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Can't use Idle type: behavior versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21973> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
