[Tutor] Idle won't run in Win NT 4
Daniel Yoo
dyoo@hkn.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:15:42 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ben Smith wrote:
> Help! I'm a total python newbie, and I'm having trouble getting Idle to run
> on my NT box. I downloaded Idle 0.5, thinking it would take care of the
> problem, but it did not. Every time I hit the shortcut or double click the
> .pyw, my cursor gets a small hourglass for about 10 seconds and then nothing
> happens. I can't find the process running anywhere.
>
> Any suggestions? I've reinstalled twice now with no luck.
Hmm... since you've reinstalled already, I'm assuming it's not a problem
with Python. However, Python comes with Tk/Tcl as its graphics library,
and since IDLE depends on it, problems most likely are coming from there.
Try this:
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import Tkinter
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and if you start seeing weird error messages, the problem has to do with
those graphics libraries. Sorry this isn't more definite. Email us back
with your results at tutor@python.org, and we'll have a better idea of
what's happening.