Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-21 Thread Mark H. Harris
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:56:51 AM UTC-6, eglows...@gmail.com wrote: > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! > Is there any possibility that you are bumping up against open IDLE Issue 14576? http://bugs.python.org/issue14576 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-20 Thread flebber
Well firstly being windows I assume that you did a restart after install. Python.org python doesn't come with the windows extensions which can be installed separately. On windows I use winpython is totally portable and can be installed as system version includes all extensions as well as Numpy

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:56 AM, wrote: > The next adventure in Python was to install Python 3 into a Windows XP > machine. I had a previous 2.7 installation that I uninstalled and carefully > removed all traces of from the directory and the registry. It is not necessary to uninstall previous

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread eglowstein . h
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:00:52 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/19/2014 12:50 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > On 19/02/2014 17:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: > > > > >> Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the > > >> new version from running correctly? > > >

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/19/2014 12:50 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 19/02/2014 17:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the new version from running correctly? Not that I'm aware of. But then again if people knew the answer it would have been posted by now.

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/02/2014 17:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: The version of tcl/tk is completely irrelevant as it comes bundled in the Python msi installer. Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the new version from running correctly? Not that I'm aware of. But then again if

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark H. Harris
> > The version of tcl/tk is completely irrelevant as it comes bundled in > > the Python msi installer. > Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the new version from running correctly? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/02/2014 16:56, Mark H. Harris wrote: Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Switch to Gnu/Linux. Which version of tcl/tk is installed. I would guess that tkinter is honked up somehow... did you clear up the old tkinter stuff? The version of tcl/tk is completely irrelevant a

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark H. Harris
> > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! > > Switch to Gnu/Linux. Which version of tcl/tk is installed. I would guess that tkinter is honked up somehow... did you clear up the old tkinter stuff? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-18 Thread behrooz . abbasy
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:26:51 PM UTC+3:30, eglows...@gmail.com wrote: > The next adventure in Python was to install Python 3 into a Windows XP > machine. I had a previous 2.7 installation that I uninstalled and carefully > removed all traces of from the directory and the registry. > > >

IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-18 Thread eglowstein . h
The next adventure in Python was to install Python 3 into a Windows XP machine. I had a previous 2.7 installation that I uninstalled and carefully removed all traces of from the directory and the registry. I got the 'python-3.3.3.msi' from Python.org and installed it. From a command window I ca

Re: IDLE won't run

2006-10-12 Thread Rob
hg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> banged out in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > What kind of error do you see by calling idle from the command line > (ex: > "c:\\python.exe c:\\idle.py" > When I ran it that way, I got a raft of warnings about a "problem retrieving theme element 'builtin-forground'"

Re: IDLE won't run

2006-10-12 Thread Scott David Daniels
Rob wrote: > I have Python 2.4.3 installed on Windows XP on both a real computer and a > virtual machine under VMware. Just recently, IDLE stopped working. I would > select IDLE from the start menu or right click on a .PY file and open it in > IDLE, but nothing happens. I just uninstalled Python

Re: IDLE won't run

2006-10-12 Thread hg
Rob wrote: > I have Python 2.4.3 installed on Windows XP on both a real computer and a > virtual machine under VMware. Just recently, IDLE stopped working. I would > select IDLE from the start menu or right click on a .PY file and open it in > IDLE, but nothing happens. I just uninstalled Python

IDLE won't run

2006-10-12 Thread Rob
I have Python 2.4.3 installed on Windows XP on both a real computer and a virtual machine under VMware. Just recently, IDLE stopped working. I would select IDLE from the start menu or right click on a .PY file and open it in IDLE, but nothing happens. I just uninstalled Python on the virtual mac

Re: IDLE won't run on WinXP

2005-10-06 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: > striker wrote: > >> I just downloaded and installed Python 2.4.2 on a Windows XP machine. >> Everything I have tried so far has worked except for IDLE. Is there > Just a thought though, during the installation of Python on one machine > it mentioned that a dll w

Re: IDLE won't run on WinXP

2005-10-06 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
striker wrote: > I just downloaded and installed Python 2.4.2 on a Windows XP machine. > Everything I have tried so far has worked except for IDLE. Is there > some setting that I need to check? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > Kevin > It runs perfectly for me, on several Windows XP ma

IDLE won't run on WinXP

2005-10-06 Thread striker
I just downloaded and installed Python 2.4.2 on a Windows XP machine. Everything I have tried so far has worked except for IDLE. Is there some setting that I need to check? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kevin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list