[Edu-sig] IDLE refusing to run

[Greg Baker]

Just a followup on this... 

I managed to get a student to work through it with me.  The problem was
with the IDLE shortcut on the desktop & start menu.  When she manually
dug through directories and opened idle.pyw, it worked fine.

Of course, once it worked, she didn't try uninstalling and reinstalling
to see if that fixed it.

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:54 -0800, Greg Baker wrote: 
> 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