[python-win32] Pythonwin starts, displays main window, interactive window 'frame', then exits

[John_Nowlan]

Thanks for the suggestion. Will have to remember.

But I had already gone for the brute force approach and uninstalled
python 2.6 and went to 2.5. That worked.
It hadn't worked when I had just uninstalled pythonwin and reinstalled.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hammond [mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 11:19 PM
> To: John_Nowlan
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Pythonwin starts, displays main window,
> interactive window 'frame', then exits
> 
> John_Nowlan wrote:
> > Sorry to intrude, but I'm hoping this is something stupid. Has
anyone
> > seen this behaviour and know of a fix?
> >
> > I've searched hi & low, but its hard to find specific info on
pythonwin.
> 
> Try deleting your "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python 2.5" (using
> whatever version of Python you are using) key - this may have garbage
> which causes MFC to get upset as it starts.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark