This sure seems like it would have been brought up but I checked Google Groups (the dejanews replacement) and saw nothing: I installed Python2.4 in Win98 and IDLE doesn't work (neither does the online manual even tho a 3.6KB Python24.chm is there, but that's a story for another day) - that is, clicking on the IDLE icon in the Start menu just gives a brief hourglass cursor and then nothing . . .
>From a DOS prompt (in C:\Python24) I can do 'python lib\idlelib\idle.py' and get a list of errors, not being able to find tcl8.4 in a number of paths, none of which exist in the c:\python24 as installed. I moved tcl84.lib into a directory it does search and got fewer errors msg's, the last being like 'can't find a usable init.tcl.' Moved init.tcl to the same dir as tcl84.lib, got even fewer errors, the last being like "_tkinter.TclError: invalid cmd name "tcl_findLibrary" So I'm stuck. I uninstalled Py2.4, installed Py2.3.5, again same thing . . . IDLE just does not come up with the tcl paths of the standard install. www.python.org gives answer to problems w/IDLE on Py1.5 from 1999 and shows adding tcl\bin to %PATH%. OK . . . What to try next? SOMEONE else must have seen this? \kim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
