[issue11413] Idle doesn't start

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

Chris: I appreciate you wanting use IDLE. I love it, hope to improve it, and am sorry that people occasionally have a problem starting it.

However, this is not a bug report but a usage question that would better have been posted to our python-list email list or the comp.lang.python newsgroup or the gmane.comp.python.general newsgroup mirror at the free news.gmane.org site.

I am closing this issue because there is not any obvious action to take with respect to the Python repository. Closing does not delete anything, nor does it stop you and Amaury from continuing your discussion. If some needed change to Python does become revealed, this can be reopened, although starting fresh with a new issue might be better.

When you email to the tracker, please delete everything except your response. Your last two messages are nearly all noise except for the the one new line.

I have considered that we maybe need an IDLE Troubleshooting doc, but I am not sure where to put it so that anyone would find it and use it. If there were a 'Running IDLE' HOW TO, would you have found it?

If you are going to use 3.1, use the latest 3.1.3 release, with all of its bug fixes. But I strongly recommend that you start now with 3.2, with its additional new changes, and forget 3.1.

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nosy: +terry.reedy
resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> closed

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