Re: Strange Problem with pythonw.exe
Hello subscribers, I've recently encountered a strange problem with Python for Windows. I'm using Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit and Python 3.2.3 64 Bit (also tried 32 bit). The Problem is, that pythonw.exe does not work at all! Therefore no IDLE for me... But python.exe runs just fine. I ran Process Monitor, which showed some activity for pythonw.exe, but no window is coming up. It is not quite clear what you did here, but if you just run pythonw.exe, you should not see anything, as the 'w' stands for 'Windows', 'windowless', or 'with user interaction through a gui brought up by the python program being run'. It make it hard to debug if no gui is being brought up. The problem isn't restricted to my main python installation. I have also tried running portable python and active state python. No pythonw.exe of them is working. Reinstallation didn't change anything. Windows firewall was deactivated, no difference. No firewall-software or any possibilities of blocking pythonw.exe. I couldn't find the problem online. My problem was triggered by using PyQt. I've loaded an .ui, which did NOT show up. I have Ne ver seen IDLE since that crash. Advice anyone? I take it that IDLE *did* work before using PyQT. If this is correct (I must admit, I hope so), I would ask the author of PyQT whether it or QT does anything to the system that could persist across installs. The most likely change to me would be in the registry. So if it were my machine, I would fire up regedit, back up the registry, search it for 'pythonw', look at the results, and perhaps delete all pythonw entries. Then reinstall the core component. You might also try 3.3.0a4, which had additional bug fixes, or go back to something like 3.2.0. -- Terry Jan Reedy Thank you for your help. I found the problem at some other place. The registry tweaks didn't solve it. But I found the hint to look up my .idlerc folder. So the problem was entirely IDLE related (yes, it worked before). But it wasnt PyQt'S problem, but the mapping of some keyboard command I made. I used the 'ü' key (german keyboard), which kept me from using IDLE for 4 days now... Deleting the %username%/.idlerc folder got the job done finally! Arthur J -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Strange Problem with pythonw.exe
On 6/10/2012 7:39 PM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote: Thank you for your help. I found the problem at some other place. The registry tweaks didn't solve it. But I found the hint to look up my .idlerc folder. So the problem was entirely IDLE related (yes, it worked before). But it wasnt PyQt'S problem, but the mapping of some keyboard command I made. I used the 'ü' key (german keyboard), which kept me from using IDLE for 4 days now... Deleting the %username%/.idlerc folder got the job done finally! I believe there is a patch, either on the tracker or applied since 3.2.3, to catch .idlerc problems and report to the user rather than quit. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Strange Problem with pythonw.exe
Hello subscribers, I've recently encountered a strange problem with Python for Windows. I'm using Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit and Python 3.2.3 64 Bit (also tried 32 bit). The Problem is, that pythonw.exe does not work at all! Therefore no IDLE for me... But python.exe runs just fine. I ran Process Monitor, which showed some activity for pythonw.exe, but no window is coming up. The problem isn't restricted to my main python installation. I have also tried running portable python and active state python. No pythonw.exe of them is working. Reinstallation didn't change anything. Windows firewall was deactivated, no difference. No firewall-software or any possibilities of blocking pythonw.exe. I couldn't find the problem online. My problem was triggered by using PyQt. I've loaded an .ui, which did NOT show up. I have Never seen IDLE since that crash. Advice anyone? Regards, Arthur -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Strange Problem with pythonw.exe
On 6/9/2012 10:23 AM, a...@vorsicht-bissig.de wrote: Hello subscribers, I've recently encountered a strange problem with Python for Windows. I'm using Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit and Python 3.2.3 64 Bit (also tried 32 bit). The Problem is, that pythonw.exe does not work at all! Therefore no IDLE for me... But python.exe runs just fine. I ran Process Monitor, which showed some activity for pythonw.exe, but no window is coming up. It is not quite clear what you did here, but if you just run pythonw.exe, you should not see anything, as the 'w' stands for 'Windows', 'windowless', or 'with user interaction through a gui brought up by the python program being run'. It make it hard to debug if no gui is being brought up. The problem isn't restricted to my main python installation. I have also tried running portable python and active state python. No pythonw.exe of them is working. Reinstallation didn't change anything. Windows firewall was deactivated, no difference. No firewall-software or any possibilities of blocking pythonw.exe. I couldn't find the problem online. My problem was triggered by using PyQt. I've loaded an .ui, which did NOT show up. I have Ne ver seen IDLE since that crash. Advice anyone? I take it that IDLE *did* work before using PyQT. If this is correct (I must admit, I hope so), I would ask the author of PyQT whether it or QT does anything to the system that could persist across installs. The most likely change to me would be in the registry. So if it were my machine, I would fire up regedit, back up the registry, search it for 'pythonw', look at the results, and perhaps delete all pythonw entries. Then reinstall the core component. You might also try 3.3.0a4, which had additional bug fixes, or go back to something like 3.2.0. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
