[issue30918] Unable to launch IDLE in windows 7

2017-09-10 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Thanks for the information. I hope to get to this before 3.6.3. -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Unable to run IDLE without write-access to home directory ___ Py

[issue30918] Unable to launch IDLE in windows 7

2017-09-10 Thread dongdong
dongdong added the comment: Hi Terry, Sorry, I missed your resply because it was buried in my trash email. Here are the configuration in my PC: HOMEDRIVE=Z: HOMEPATH=\ HOMESHARE=\\nt3.imec.be\zhai65 LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\zhai65\AppData\Local USERPROFILE=C:\Users\zhai65 In python >>> expanduser

[issue30918] Unable to launch IDLE in windows 7

2017-07-14 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy components: +IDLE type: crash -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue30918] Unable to launch IDLE in windows 7

2017-07-14 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This is a duplicate of #8231. But before I close this, when you do > set in the console (command prompt), what HOME* variables are set and is USERPROFILE? In python, what does >>> from os.path import expanduser >>> expanduser('~') show? -- nosy: +t

[issue30918] Unable to launch IDLE in windows 7

2017-07-13 Thread dongdong
New submission from dongdong: "unable to create user config directory Z:\.idlerc check path and permisssion" It through out this error, when I try to launch the IDLE not as an adminnistrator acount. There is an networed disk memory Z: on my computer this error is caused by configHandler.p