[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-19 Thread Cain
Cain gamingleg...@gmail.com added the comment: Awesome, that resolved it. Simply started idle through the command window, then changed the theme back to the default. Thanks Roger. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Cain
Cain gamingleg...@gmail.com added the comment: Running Windows 7. I get the following output when running the requested command: File stdin, line 1 python.exe Lib\idlelib\idle.py SyntaxError: invalid syntax -- ___ Python tracker

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Can you please attach your idle.py, and/or figure out why it has a syntax error on line 1? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14838

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Ah, I think I know what happened. When I said command line, I didn't mean Python (command line), but CMD shell, as found in the start menu (i.e. cmd.exe). The line I gave you is, of course, invalid Python syntax. If you have never used

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: If python itself runs, you can easily try this from inside the interpreter from idlelib import idle This *should* bring up the Idle shell window. It just did for me on 64 bit Win7. If not, there *should* be an error traceback you can cut and

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Cain
Cain gamingleg...@gmail.com added the comment: Terry - just ran that command as you suggested and it did bring up idle, however also reported errors in the command window: Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'stderr-foreground' from theme

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Roger Serwy
Roger Serwy roger.se...@gmail.com added the comment: The reason why IDLE failed to launch is due to stderr=None when using pythonw.exe. The first Warning message cause IDLE to abort. See issue13582 for more details and a solution to the problem of IDLE not starting. Cain, your home directory

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Closing as a duplicate. Roger, thanks for the analysis. -- resolution: - duplicate status: open - closed superseder: - IDLE and pythonw.exe stderr problem ___ Python tracker

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-17 Thread Anthony Kong
Anthony Kong anthony.hw.k...@gmail.com added the comment: Which os? windows or linux or osx? It actually sounds like a support question. You probably should take the question to the python newsgroup (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/comp.lang.python). -- nosy:

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-17 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Please run, from the command line, in the Python installation python.exe Lib\idlelib\idle.py and report any output you get. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-17 Thread Roger Serwy
Changes by Roger Serwy roger.se...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +serwy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14838 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-16 Thread Cain
New submission from Cain gamingleg...@gmail.com: After reinstalling Python 3.2.2, I have been unable to load IDLE - it simply refuses to respond. I have tried upgrading to 3.3 also, and still have the same problem - following multiple uninstalls, reinstalls and searching, I can't appear to