[Tutor] Getting Idle to work in Win7

[Walter Prins]

Hi

On 27 July 2011 22:07, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> It's been many months since I played with Python, and have forgotten how to
> bring up IDLE. If I simply click on a py file, I see what may be a dos
> window appear and quickly disappear. If I right-click on the file, and
> select IDLE, the same thing happens. If I go directly to All Programs, the
> same thing happens when I select IDLE.
>

There must be something wrong with your Python installation.
Right-click->"Edit with Idle" and starting IDLE from All Programs works fine
for me. (Win 7 64-bit, with both Python 2.7 and 3.2 installed.)  I suggest
you reinstall Python as a start.  It might also be worthwhile to try to run
your Python script from the command line, as well as starting Idle from the
command line so you can see what error message might be printed.

Cheers

Walter
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