[Idle-dev] error with IDLE on debian

[altern]

Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
> 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.

of course, i should have thought about that myself.
it worked. thanks!

enrike