DavidHolt wrote:
I have a problem that I see on two different machines, one running XP SP1 and one XP SP 2.
On both I installed Python 2.4.
I can't seem to start IDLE. When I try to start it, I get an hourglass cursor for a short time then nothing more happens. This happens whether I click the IDLE shortcut or click the pythonw.exe directly, or attempt to launch pythonw from a command line.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting you, here, but pythonw.exe is *not* IDLE. It is, instead, a console-less version of the Python interpreter, which can run the Python scripts for IDLE (among other things).
My version of Python is older, but in %pythondir%/Tools/idle, there is an idle.pyw file. Try running that. If it doesn't work, then copy & paste any error messages (you'll probably need to run it from a command line for this) to your next post here so that we can try to troubleshoot a bit more effectively.
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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