Re: The idle gui

2015-03-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > I wasn't actually trying to pick on the OP this time, but to make a joke. > Idle could be taken two ways (if it weren't for the capitalization), or even > three (My Chevy won't idle.). Beware the Idles of March? ChrisA -- https://mail.pytho

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 03/14/2015 05:57 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dave Angel wrote: Not if you don't take it to him. If you just call him on the phone, and say "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the vehicle is. Or whether it's even a car. Maybe "it" i

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-14 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/13/2015 4:58 PM, lmzent...@gmail.com wrote: My python program was running for over six weeks. This is not clear. Do you mean that you wrote a program in python and that it ran continously, day and night, for 6 weeks? Or that you successfully used python on and off for 6 weeks? In eith

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-14 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 3:28:11 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > > Not if you don't take it to him. If you just call him on the phone, and say > > "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the vehicle > > is. Or

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > Not if you don't take it to him. If you just call him on the phone, and say > "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the vehicle > is. Or whether it's even a car. Maybe "it" is a son who refuses to get a > job. In the

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 03/13/2015 09:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: We need more information than just "It doesn't work". You wouldn't go to a car mechanic and say "It makes a funny noise", would you? No. Actually, most likely yes.It's remarkably hard to describe noises, and often

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: > We need more information than just "It doesn't work". You wouldn't go to > a car mechanic and say "It makes a funny noise", would you? No. Actually, most likely yes.It's remarkably hard to describe noises, and often difficult to pin-point where they come from. My

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/03/2015 20:58, lmzent...@gmail.com wrote: My python program was running for over six weeks. Then the idle gui stopped opening. I have reinstalled several times but it doesn't work. Any idea? Would you please read http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and possibly http://ssc

Re: The idle gui

2015-03-13 Thread sohcahtoa82
On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 1:58:44 PM UTC-7, lmze...@gmail.com wrote: > My python program was running for over six weeks. Then the idle gui stopped > opening. I have reinstalled several times but it doesn't work. Any idea? Not trying to be rude here, but do you really think we'll be able to hel