[Idle-dev] Idle with Python25 'AND' Python30

Tal Einat taleinat at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 18:34:26 CET 2008


nlneilson wrote:
>
> How can Idle be run with Python25 and also be able to run with Python30??
>
[snip]
>
> After several hours of tinkering I was unable to get Idle to run with
> Python25.
> I tried this and many others:
> C:\Python25\Lib\idlelib\idle.py pythondllpath=C:\Python25
>
[snip]

Try this: (works for any Python script)
C:\Python25\python.exe C:\Python25\Lib\idlelib\idle.py

Or the shorter and simpler: (works only with modules)
C:\Python25\python.exe -m idlelib.idle


- Tal


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