In article <cambegteobpypbyuyjnnknb+jwdwp6+axwhah9mxu-novrp-...@mail.gmail.com>, Ashley Forman <forma...@mail.chapman.edu> wrote: > My name is Ashley Forman, and I am emailing because I cannot install > python onto my Mac laptop! I have installed Active-TCl 8.5 along with > Python 3.3 and tried with 3.4, and couldn't figure out a solution to my > problem. When I click on IDLE to open, it does not open at all. Therefore, > if you have any information that could help me, then I would really > appreciate it! Thank you!
Clicking on the IDLE icon is fine - unless it is doesn't work, in which case error messages associated with the failure may end up in a system log rather than being display directly to you. It's easier to debug problems like this by launching IDLE from a terminal session than by double-clicking on it. Assuming you installed Python 3.4 (3.4.1 is current) from one of the python.org installers, open a terminal shell window, for example by using the Terminal.app (found in /Applications/Utilities). Then, in the shell window, try typing: /usr/local/bin/idle3.4 If IDLE fails, there should be some sort of error message in the terminal window. If it is not clear what the problem is, copy and paste them to the group here. You can also just try launching Python itself and verify that it works without IDLE: /usr/local/bin/python3.4 Good luck! -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list