Rob wrote: > I have Python 2.4.3 installed on Windows XP on both a real computer and a > virtual machine under VMware. Just recently, IDLE stopped working. I would > select IDLE from the start menu or right click on a .PY file and open it in > IDLE, but nothing happens. I just uninstalled Python on the virtual machine > and installed 2.5 in the hope that that would fix the problem, but it > didn't. It, too, would do nothing when I tried to run IDLE. In both cases, > the Python command line window will come up, but that's not what I want to > use. > > Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? Is there a new Windows > update that is now interfering with IDLE? Would Norton Antivirus be > interfering with it somehow? (It's running in both environments.)
What kind of error do you see by calling idle from the command line (ex: "c:\....\python.exe c:\....\idle.py" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
