On 2017-09-06 10:14, 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?
Some debugging ideas: - Do imports work if you start "python" from the terminal, rather than using IDLE? If not, is there an error message? - If python (in the terminal) hangs, and you press Ctrl+C, what happens? - If you start idle from the terminal and do what you've been doing so far, are there any error messages? - What if you kill idle instead of python? -- Thomas Jollans -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list