Problem with IDLE on windows XP

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:50:43 -0200, Grimes, George <georgegrimes at ti.com>  
escribió:

> I am trying to learn Python and I installed version 2.6 both at home and  
> at work.  At home, on
> Vista, everything works fine.  At work, on XP, IDLE would not run.  I  
> uninstalled/reinstalled
> and got the same thing.  My cursor changes to the wait symbol for a few  
> seconds, then goes
> back to normal and ….nothing.  The Task Manager shows nothing.  I  
> uninstalled again,
> made sure all the files were deleted from the disk, used regedit to  
> delte every registry entry
> that had python in it and tried version 3.0.
>
> Geuss, what?  I still can’t run IDLE on XP?  Is this a common problem?   
> Or am I unique?

Did you install "for all users" (as Administrator) or "just for me"?

The following instructions assume you installed Python 2.6 on C:\Python26  
-- replace with your own directory if different.

Open a command prompt (go to Start, Run, type "cmd" and press Enter).
At the > prompt type:

c:\Python26\python -V

and press Enter. Should reply with the Python version. Then try with:

c:\Python26\python c:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw

Should start IDLE, probably you get some error message; post it here.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina