[Edu-sig] IDLE refusing to run

[Greg Baker]

We have had complaints from a few students running Python under Windows
that they can't get things running.  All seem to take the form:
  1. At some point, Python/IDLE under Windows crashed.
  2. IDLE won't run at all after that.
  3. The regular interpreter will run (python.exe).
  4. Uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't help.

Does anybody have any idea what to do about this?  (Or who to ask?) I
haven't been able to reproduce it to test, but it has happened to
several students independantly.

-- 
Greg Baker, Lecturer
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6
E-mail: ggbaker at cs.sfu.ca