<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 6 Sep, 2009, at 22:21, Ahmed Shamim wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#021324" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#021324" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Hi there,<br>
I'm really in a deep shit.<br>In my class, I am just falling behind.<br>I am trying every way to install IDLE in my macbook (version OS X 10.5.8 and Intel core 2 duo)</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#021324" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><br>
It gets installed, but when I double click IDLE app, it just seems like opening something, but does not open anything...<br>pls help.</span></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div>How did you install IDLE? </div><div><br></div><div>One way that should get you a working IDLE is to download the version of Python you want to use from <a href="http://www.python.org">www.python.org</a>, there are binary installers for OSX for all current releases of Python (2.5.x, 2.6.x, 3.1.x) and all of them install IDLE into a subfolder of your Applications folder.</div><div><br></div><div>If you already did that: you can start the IDLE application bundle in the Terminal as well:</div><div><br></div><div> "/Applications/Python 2.6/IDLE.app/Contents/MacOS/IDLE"</div><div><br></div><div>If that fails to launch IDLE I'd like to know the output that's printed in the Terminal window.</div><div><br></div><div>Ronald</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: medium;">Shamim</span></font></div>
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