Idle no longer works

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Opap-OJ <opiney597 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I can no longer open the Idle IDE for Python on Windows 7.
>
> For 3-5 years I used Idle for all my python work.  But in January this happens:
>
> When I right click on a python file and choose "open with Idle" nothing happens.
>
> If I double-click on the file itself, it briefly opens an MS-DOS looking window, then closes it immediately.
>
> I tried installing Eclipse with PyDev.  It opens the file, but will not run it in Python.
>
> Any idea why?
> --

Have you tried launching Python from the Command Prompt? Open up
command prompt and run C:\Python32\python.exe or whatever corresponds
to your version of Python.