Thanks, Jeff. That works.
"Jeff Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's me wrote: > > > In my case, there is *no* error message of any kind. When I run pythonw.exe > > from the python23 directory, the screen blinked slightly and goes back to > > the command prompt. > > Right -- pythonw.exe is a console-less interpreter. Having no > console, it doesn't have an interactive mode, and since you didn't > give it a script to run, it simply started, found nothing to do, and > then terminated itself. > > You need to run idle.pyw, *not* pythonw.exe. The idle.pyw script runs > inside the pythonw.exe interpreter, but the latter can't do anything > without instructions. > > Jeff Shannon > Technician/Programmer > Credit International > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list