On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:34 PM, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > On 7/27/2011 9:48 AM, Jerry Hill wrote: >> So, you don't have an idle.py or idle.pyw in C:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\ >> (or where ever you installed python)? If not, it sounds to me like >> your python installation is screwed up. I would re-install. > > Yes, I have both. Neither shows anything on the monitor when I double click > them.
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. Go ahead and open that cmd.exe window back up. Please run the following and report back the results. In the cmd.exe window run: assoc .py assoc .pyw ftype Python.File ftype Python.NoConFile Those four commands should show us how the python file associations are set up on your computer. Then, let's try to run idle and capture whatever error message is popping up. I don't think you've mentioned what version of python you have installed. The following is for 2.6, since that's what I have installed here, but it should work on any other version if you swap in your installation directory for the 2.6 one below. Still in your cmd.exe window, run the following: c:\Python26\python.exe C:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.py If you get an exception, please copy and paste the details for us. If that works and opens idle, please try running this: C:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.py Based on the behavior you've described so far, that ought to fail, and hopefully give some sort of message or exception for us to diagnose. PS: If you're just trying to get things working, and don't care what might be wrong, I would recommend just re-installing python. That ought to clean up all the file associations and set things up properly for you. That's likely the quickest way to just get things working. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list