Idle won't start

remco remco at localhost
Mon Dec 15 05:17:57 EST 2003


>kmneilso at yahoo.com (Kerry Neilson) writes:
>
>> For the past couple of months, Idle won't start when I invoke it.  I
>> am at a complete loss for why this is.  When this happens, they python
>> command line still starts, and python works fine otherwise.
>> Most interesting to me is that a reboot won't fix the problem.  But if
>> I just try it again sometime later it will work.  Anyone have any
>> ideas?  I'm running python 2.3 on windows 2000 professional.

Have you tried running it from the command line?
like: <your python dir>\lib\idlelib\idle.py
and see if it produces any error messages?

Cheers!
Remco Boerma




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