Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

Thanks, guess I misunderstood--I thought "pythonw" _was_ IDLE. Now I see what IDLE is, and I wasn't actually wanting to run that. And as it turns out, my _real_ problem was that my path was making me run the CygWin version of Python from the "DOS" command prompt--which understandably dies with a

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Otten wrote: Perhaps your configuration files contain bad data: # IDLE reads several config files to determine user preferences. This # file is the default config file for general idle settings. ... # On Windows2000 and Windows XP the .idlerc directory is at # D

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

Peter Otten wrote: > Perhaps your configuration files contain bad data: > > # IDLE reads several config files to determine user preferences. This > # file is the default config file for general idle settings. ... > # On Windows2000 and Windows XP the .idlerc directory is at > # Documents and

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

Brian van den Broek wrote: >> # IDLE reads several config files to determine user preferences.  This >> # file is the default config file for general idle settings. > > > Thanks for posting that, Peter. It helped me work out my problem that > I posted about a few days back

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

Peter Otten said unto the world upon 2005-02-07 09:14: Jonathan Polley wrote: I have one account on a WindowsXP machine that refuses to run IDLE (or any other python script that uses Tk). Other people can login to that PC and IDLE runs just fine, so it is not an installation issue. When the pers

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

Jonathan Polley wrote: > I have one account on a WindowsXP machine that refuses to run IDLE (or > any other python script that uses Tk). Other people can login to that > PC and IDLE runs just fine, so it is not an installation issue. When > the person who has the problem logs into another PC the

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marian Aldenhövel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Any ideas as to what might me wrong? > > > TclError: unknown color name "white " > > There is a space after "white" in this error-message. If this string comes > from some per-user configuration that may w

Re: Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

Hi, > Any ideas as to what might me wrong? TclError: unknown color name "white " There is a space after "white" in this error-message. If this string comes from some per-user configuration that may well explain your problem. Ciao, MM -- Marian Aldenhövel, Rosenhain 23, 53123 Bonn. +49 228 624013. h

Unable to run IDLE Under Windows

I have one account on a WindowsXP machine that refuses to run IDLE (or any other python script that uses Tk). Other people can login to that PC and IDLE runs just fine, so it is not an installation issue. When the person who has the problem logs into another PC the problem follows them. Any idea