[Pythonmac-SIG] Problem Running PythonIDE

[marmille]

On On 29-jun-04, at 2:49, Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> On 29-jun-04, at 1:52, marmille wrote:
> 
>>>   File  
>>> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Mac/Tools/IDE/ 
>>> Wapplication.py", line 433, in getnextid
>>>     id = self.possibleIDs[0]
>>> IndexError: list index out of range
>>
>>
>> ...which is hopefully a clue to somebody, but way beyond my own 
>> meager  MacPython abilities to diagnose at this point.
> 
> 
> Yes, this is a known bug, it will be fixed in the next release. But  
> luckily there is a workaround too.
> 
> The problem is that the IDE recursively creates the "Scripts" menu with  
> the contents of the files and folders in your scripts folder. If there  
> are more than 256 of those it will run out of menu entries and crash.
> 
> There are two ways you can get this problem, with different fixes:
> - if you really have more than 256 scripts in your scripts folder you  
> need to delete some.
> - more often, you've selected a different folder as your scripts folder  
> (maybe your home folder, or Documents, or something like that) that has  
> more then 256 files. The solution now is to remove  
> "~/Library/Preferences/Python/PythonIDE preferences", that should make  
> the IDE start again.
> -- 

Since I've never run the PythonIDE before, there's no way I could have 
changed its default scripts folder...

Anyway, trashing the PythonIDE preferences solved the problem -- yea!

Thanks very much for the assistance.

Cheers,
-Martin