[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Stephan Bellegy stephan.bell...@gmail.com added the comment: Reproduced today with Python 2.6.6 and 2.7 on Win7 32 bits. Deleting .idlerc directory made it. Doesn't look like fixed guys ! ;-) -- nosy: +Stephan.Bellegy versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 2.5, Python 3.1

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Please submit this as a new bug issue, preferably with precise instructions on how to reproduce it. Can you provide some clue how the file became hidden in the first place? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Stephan Bellegy stephan.bell...@gmail.com added the comment: New bug reported here http://bugs.python.org/issue9925 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue1743 ___

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Kurt B. Kaiser added the comment: backported 2.5.2c1 __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1743 __ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Kurt B. Kaiser added the comment: Thanks for the fix. r60225. -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1743 __ ___

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I've studied the problem with Process Monitor. If a file is hidden, open(f, w) fails, whereas os.open(f, os.W_OK|os.O_CREAT) succeeds. In the succeeding call, process monitor reports Desired Access: Generic Read/Write Disposition:OpenIf Options:

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: As a follow-up, it appears that Windows didn't allow truncating hidden or system files since Windows 2000. If you change the flags on .idlerc to hidden in (say) W2k3, IDLE will also fail to start - so it's not a Vista issue. The question is why the folder

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Rich added the comment: Aha! There is no difference in Permissions, but the working recent- files file isn't hidden but the one generated originally by IDLE was. If I make the one I made hidden then IDLE stops working again. The .idlerc folder has been hidden all along though - that doesn't

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: We should clearly separate issues. Changing the organization of files is entirely independent from fixing the bug reported here, and the issues must not at all be mixed. I'm puzzled as to why making the file hidden should have any effect, but at least that's

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Kurt B. Kaiser added the comment: 1. Could you look at the properties of the .idlerc\recent-files.lst that you saved and compare them to the new file which worked? In particular, what about access permissions? 2. I agree that IDLE should have a better error response if opening a user config

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Rich added the comment: I can't get it to do it again. Unless someone else is still experiencing the problem, perhaps it was fixed (deliberately or otherwise) by this month's Vista hotfixes that came down automatically a couple of days ago. Thanks for your help everyone.

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Rich added the comment: I've been away for a couple of days, but can replicate everything Joakim has reported in my abscence. Deleting/renaming recent-files.lst allows me to launch IDLE (from cmd or Start Menu). Oddly though, if I close IDLE, copy/paste the contents of the old recent-files

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Can anybody provide a complete, reproducible procedure for that bug (rather than reproducible procedures to work around it)? Such a procedure might have to start with installing Python. __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Joakim added the comment: I have the exact same problem also running 32-bit vista. Idle worked the first time I started it but after that it doesn't start. I did run the command and got this error. C:\Users\JoakimC:\Python25\python.exe C:\Python25\Lib\idle.py C:\Python25\python.exe: can't open

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Christian Heimes added the comment: Can you access the file C:\\Users\\Joakim\\.idlerc\\recent-files.lst with the explorer? Do the directory and the file exist? __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1743 __

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Joakim added the comment: I can access the file. I renamed the file and tried the command again. Then I started IDLE and got a window. A new recent-files.lst was created. So I guess I solved the problem temporarily. __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Christian Heimes added the comment: It smells like a Vista issue. But IDLE shouldn't crash w/o a notice if the recent list can't be opened. -- assignee: - kbk nosy: +kbk priority: - low __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1743

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

New submission from Rich: Launching IDLE from the start menu has no effect, no windows open. Command line Python still works. Reinstalling Python does not fix the problem. I haven't changed my system configuration since everything was working. Any ideas for things to check to fix this on my

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Christian Heimes added the comment: What's your OS and how did you install Python on your machine? -- nosy: +tiran __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1743 __

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Rich added the comment: I'm on 32-bit Windows Vista, and I installed with the Python 2.5 msi. __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1743 __ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue1743] IDLE fails to launch

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Please open IDLE from the command line: 1. start cmd.exe 2. run path to python.exe path to python/Lib/idle/idle.py That should give you an error, please report it. -- nosy: +loewis __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED]