[issue14996] Python 3.2.3 freezes when saving a .py program

Ned Deily added the comment: Windows experts: any suggestions here? -- nosy: +brian.curtin, loewis, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue14996] Python 3.2.3 freezes when saving a .py program

Maureen Cuomo added the comment: I can save to the desktop, but nowhere else. Will this be fixed? I teach python at my school and next year all my computers will have windows 7. I also have a program called deep freeze that erases any files saved on a computer including the desktop. This prevent

[issue14996] Python 3.2.3 freezes when saving a .py program

Maureen Cuomo added the comment: Yes it looks like that. I Open a new window in python, type into the new window. I try to save it so I can run the program and I get the twirling circle until the dialog box come up saying pythow.exe has stopped working. Maureen Cuomo On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:39

[issue14996] Python 3.2.3 freezes when saving a .py program

Ned Deily added the comment: Also, you could try temporarily renaming the .idlerc folder in your User folder; this is where IDLE stores several configuration files which can be a cause of problems if they have incorrect values. And you could also try to run IDLE from the Python command line.

[issue14996] Python 3.2.3 freezes when saving a .py program

Ned Deily added the comment: It is still difficult to understand what problem you are seeing as others are using IDLE from the 3.2.3 installers on Windows 7. There is at least one open issue in this area on Windows: http://bugs.python.org/issue12988. Does that describe what you are seeing?

[issue14996] Python 3.2.3 freezes when saving a .py program

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