Re: IDLE GUI not working

2010-12-26 Thread Grant Andrew
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Python Programming wrote: > Hello all, > > Newbie here so go easy on me. I've been trying to get the IDLE GUI to > work on my machine, but have been unsuccessful so far. I have an IBM > Thinkpad running Windows XP and it has an older version of Python > running (

Re: Starting Python in XP Pro

2010-10-19 Thread Grant Andrew
, all is well. Now I can get to the work of learning Python, instead of bleeding through the eyes. Thanks for all of the help!! Grant On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:27:11 -0600, Grant Andrew > declaimed the follow

Re: Starting Python in XP Pro

2010-10-19 Thread Grant Andrew
Oct 17, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 10/16/2010 11:27 PM, Grant Andrew wrote: > >> I hear that...God knows if I had a more complete question, I'd type it - >> basically, when I click the IDLE GUI icon from the Start Menu, there is a >> flash of a command p

Re: Starting Python in XP Pro

2010-10-16 Thread Grant Andrew
quot; This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly. I hope this helps. Thanks again for any help. Grant On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 2:59 PM, Grant Andrew wrote: > >> I'm a beginning user with some challenges. I have installed

Starting Python in XP Pro

2010-10-16 Thread Grant Andrew
I'm a beginning user with some challenges. I have installed and uninstalled several versions with the same results - I can't get IDLE to work, nor can I associate .py files with Python. So I can get the interactive shell interface but nothing else. I'm currently running ActiveState 2.6. Any tho