Friedrich Rentsch wrote: > Hi, I am setting up Python 2.7 after an upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04, a > thorough one, leaving no survivors. Everything is fine, IDLE opens, > ready to go. Alas, execfile and import commands don't do my bidding, but > hang IDLE. All I can do is kill the process named "python" from a bash > terminal. IDLE then is still open, says "=== RESTART: Shell ===" and is > again ready for action. It works interactively, but no imports . . . > What could be the problem?
Close idle completely (or kill the idle process), then start it from the command line, with an empty PYTHONPATH variable and from an empty directory. $ killall idle idle: no process found $ mkdir empty $ cd empty $ PYTHONPATH= idle Does the problem persist? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
