On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:53:53 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
>On 5/24/2011 4:12 PM, markrri...@aol.com wrote: >> On Tue, 24 May 2011 12:50:47 -0400, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu> >>> How do you try to start it? >> >>> From start|programs|python and clicking on the idle icon. > >OK. Works fine for me on winxp desktop and win7 laptop. >3.2.1 will be out soon. Whether or not you find a fix before that, >download it, install, and try again. I think I would uninstall 3.2.0 >first. You could, of course, try re-installing. > >I just tried >C:\Documents and Settings\Terry>set PYTHONPATH >Environment variable PYTHONPATH not defined > >so undefining that should not be the problem. > >The icon properties are not helpful as to how it starts IDLE. >Perhaps is uses ../python32/Lib/idlelib/idle.bat > >@echo off >rem Start IDLE using the appropriate Python interpreter >set CURRDIR=%~dp0 >start "%CURRDIR%..\..\pythonw.exe" "%CURRDIR%idle.pyw" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 >%7 %8 %9 > >In a command prompt window you could directly try something like >C:\Programs\Python32>pythonw Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw >which works for me. Make sure idlelib and idle.pyw are present. >Also check tcl/ and Lib/tkinter/ > >idle.pyw has >======================= >try: > import idlelib.PyShell >except ImportError: > # IDLE is not installed, but maybe PyShell is on sys.path: > try: > from . import PyShell > except ImportError: > raise > else: > import os > idledir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(PyShell.__file__)) > if idledir != os.getcwd(): > # We're not in the IDLE directory, help the subprocess find >run.py > pypath = os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH', '') > if pypath: > os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] = pypath + ':' + idledir > else: > os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] = idledir > PyShell.main() >else: > idlelib.PyShell.main() >========================== > >PYTHONPATH does come into play if but only if two imports fail. >You could make a copy of that and add prints to see what does and does >not execute. Thanks Terry, I will do what I can. I'll let you know how it works out. But thanks again. Every little bit helps me get closer to the solution. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list