¡Muchas gracias! That was the hint that I needed, Gabriel. I had a problem with my path definition and running idle the way you indicated gave me an error message saying that it could not find a valid init.tcl on the path. I have fixed the problem and can now run idle at work.
Thanks again! George George A. Grimes 972-995-0190 - Desk 214-205-0244 - Cell Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. Henry Ford -----Original Message----- From: python-list-bounces+georgegrimes=ti....@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+georgegrimes=ti....@python.org] On Behalf Of Gabriel Genellina Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:33 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Problem with IDLE on windows XP En Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:50:43 -0200, Grimes, George <georgegri...@ti.com> escribió: > I am trying to learn Python and I installed version 2.6 both at home and > at work. At home, on > Vista, everything works fine. At work, on XP, IDLE would not run. I > uninstalled/reinstalled > and got the same thing. My cursor changes to the wait symbol for a few > seconds, then goes > back to normal and ….nothing. The Task Manager shows nothing. I > uninstalled again, > made sure all the files were deleted from the disk, used regedit to > delte every registry entry > that had python in it and tried version 3.0. > > Geuss, what? I still can’t run IDLE on XP? Is this a common problem? > Or am I unique? Did you install "for all users" (as Administrator) or "just for me"? The following instructions assume you installed Python 2.6 on C:\Python26 -- replace with your own directory if different. Open a command prompt (go to Start, Run, type "cmd" and press Enter). At the > prompt type: c:\Python26\python -V and press Enter. Should reply with the Python version. Then try with: c:\Python26\python c:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw Should start IDLE, probably you get some error message; post it here. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
