Problem: Terminal (OS X) window exits immediately on opening. & Solution.

[Lou Pecora]

In article <mailman.1980.1237237525.11746.python-list at python.org>,
 Python <python at rgbaz.eu> wrote:

> > --
> why don't you just execute the script directly form the terminal?
> then you will be able to read all error messages...
> and you can delete all the files you want
> 
> just my 2c
> 
> Arno

Because the shell process in the Terminal window would exit right after 
it started even when I was just trying to open a new window (not even 
running a script), i.e. command-N in Terminal.  So I could not run 
anything from the Terminal. 

More info:  There is an Executestring in the Terminal preferences that 
is executed (I would guess as a shell command or script) when the shell 
starts up (which happens whenever a new window is opened).  If that is 
bad in any way, the shell exists with an error message.  There is no way 
to run any shell in the Terminal at that point.  The only option appears 
to be to clean up the preferences.  I don't know why the preferences got 
a bad command while I was running Python scripts.  Maybe nothing to do 
with Python, maybe it does.  Not sure.

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-- Lou Pecora