Python-list Digest, Vol 39, Issue 378

[altern]

> Just a guess, but I think you need to be using at least Python 2.4 if
> you are going to use IDLE version 2.4.4-2.

sorry i did a typo. I am actually using python 2.4.4



> On Dec 20, 1:16 pm, altern <alte... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> 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"
>>
>> I am not sure about what could cause the problem because I didnt use my
>> laptop for python programming for couple of weeks. Before that it worked
>> fine. And on that period i might have installed few things.
>>
>> I am running Debian unstable with python 2.2.4, 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?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> enrike
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