In my case, there is *no* error message of any kind. When I run pythonw.exe from the python23 directory, the screen blinked slightly and goes back to the command prompt.
"Jeff Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
