On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 2/24/2015 3:13 PM, blakemal...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I too can not get idle to run on win 8.1 using python3.4.2 installed from >> the python-3.4.2.amd64.msi. > > > What experience have others had with Idle and Windows 8? > > The OP for > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28633690/python-installation-troubleshooting > > wrote in a comment "I am invoking it from a win8 startmenu program, so I > tried to do it via the normal windows 8 interface and it works from there," > > I do not know what 'normal windows 8 interface' means, but does it work for > anyone else? > >> pythonw.exe appears in the task manager but no gui is displayed. > > > pythonw.exe should appear *twice* in task manager. > Please try 3.4.3rc1 and 3.5.0a1 > https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ > > If the Idle does not start correctly on Win 8, perhaps we could fix it > before 3.4.3 final (which should be soon).
I just tried both of those (32-bit only) in a Windows 8.1 VM and had no problems starting Idle. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
