[Idle-dev] error with IDLE on debian

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

altern <altern2 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, I wrote with this problem to the general Python mailing list but I 
> did not get any answer so I decided to email to the IDLE-dev list. My 
> problem is that when i try to run IDLE on my debian laptop I get this error.
>
> $ idle
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/idle", line 5, in ?
>      main()
>    File "idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1359, in main
>    File "idlelib/FileList.py", line 44, in new
>    File "idlelib/PyShell.py", line 105, in __init__
>    File "idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 111, in __init__
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2764, in __init__
>      Widget.__init__(self, master, 'text', cnf, kw)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1865, in __init__
>      self.tk.call(
> _tkinter.TclError: expected integer but got "`100"
>
> Few weeks ago IDLE worked fine, I dont really know what could be causing 
> the error.
>
> I am running Debian unstable with python 2.4.4, tcl8.4, tk8.4, python-tk
> 24.4-1 and IDLE 2.4.4-2. I already tried to reinstall IDLE, tk and tcl
> and python-tk but that did not solve anything, i keep getting the same
> error.
>
> any ideas?

Try setting aside (i.e. rename) your .idlerc directory and restart IDLE.

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KBK