Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-21 Thread Mark H. Harris
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:56:51 AM UTC-6, eglows...@gmail.com wrote: > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! > Is there any possibility that you are bumping up against open IDLE Issue 14576? http://bugs.python.org/issue14576 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-20 Thread flebber
Well firstly being windows I assume that you did a restart after install. Python.org python doesn't come with the windows extensions which can be installed separately. On windows I use winpython is totally portable and can be installed as system version includes all extensions as well as Numpy

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:56 AM, wrote: > The next adventure in Python was to install Python 3 into a Windows XP > machine. I had a previous 2.7 installation that I uninstalled and carefully > removed all traces of from the directory and the registry. It is not necessary to uninstall previous

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread eglowstein . h
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:00:52 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 2/19/2014 12:50 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > On 19/02/2014 17:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: > > > > >> Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the > > >> new version from running correctly? > > >

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 2/19/2014 12:50 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 19/02/2014 17:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the new version from running correctly? Not that I'm aware of. But then again if people knew the answer it would have been posted by now.

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/02/2014 17:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: The version of tcl/tk is completely irrelevant as it comes bundled in the Python msi installer. Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the new version from running correctly? Not that I'm aware of. But then again if

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark H. Harris
> > The version of tcl/tk is completely irrelevant as it comes bundled in > > the Python msi installer. > Does the previous version put stuff into the registry that keeps the new version from running correctly? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/02/2014 16:56, Mark H. Harris wrote: Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Switch to Gnu/Linux. Which version of tcl/tk is installed. I would guess that tkinter is honked up somehow... did you clear up the old tkinter stuff? The version of tcl/tk is completely irrelevant a

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-19 Thread Mark H. Harris
> > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! > > Switch to Gnu/Linux. Which version of tcl/tk is installed. I would guess that tkinter is honked up somehow... did you clear up the old tkinter stuff? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-18 Thread behrooz . abbasy
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:26:51 PM UTC+3:30, eglows...@gmail.com wrote: > The next adventure in Python was to install Python 3 into a Windows XP > machine. I had a previous 2.7 installation that I uninstalled and carefully > removed all traces of from the directory and the registry. > > >

IDLE won't run after installing Python 3.3 in Windows

2014-02-18 Thread eglowstein . h
The next adventure in Python was to install Python 3 into a Windows XP machine. I had a previous 2.7 installation that I uninstalled and carefully removed all traces of from the directory and the registry. I got the 'python-3.3.3.msi' from Python.org and installed it. From a command window I ca