[Pythonmac-SIG] Help wanted in installing IDLE in Mac

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 6 Sep, 2009, at 22:21, Ahmed Shamim wrote:

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> Hi there,
> I'm really in a deep shit.
> In my class, I am just falling behind.
> I am trying every way to install IDLE in my macbook (version OS X  
> 10.5.8 and Intel core 2 duo)
>
> It gets installed, but when I double click IDLE app, it just seems  
> like opening something, but does not open anything...
> pls help.

How did you install IDLE?

One way that should get you a working IDLE is to download the version  
of Python you want to use from www.python.org, there are binary  
installers for OSX for all current releases of Python (2.5.x, 2.6.x,  
3.1.x) and all of them install IDLE into a subfolder of your  
Applications folder.

If you already did that: you can start the IDLE application bundle in  
the Terminal as well:

     "/Applications/Python 2.6/IDLE.app/Contents/MacOS/IDLE"

If that fails to launch IDLE I'd like to know the output that's  
printed in the Terminal window.

Ronald

> Shamim
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