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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Subject: Re: IDLE quits unexpectedly when about to open or creat a new file
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:49:19 -0500
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On 11/10/2015 6:01 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:46 PM,  <trindadegoncalves@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need help to find out what's going on. I did some research, but I couldn't find anything to solve this problem:
>>
>> - I open the IDLE program;

 From the Start menu icon, let us presume.

>> - I go to the 'File' menu;

Of the shell window, I presume.

>> - I select the 'New File' option

This should create an empty EditorWindow instance.

>> - IDLE quits.

Puzzling.  The shell window is a subclass of EditorWindow, so 
EditorWindow.__init__ has already run once -- without the extra stuff 
added by the subclass.

>> I run the IDLE version 3.3.3 on Windows 8.1 Pro.
>> Should I install the most recent version?

That would be a good idea in general.  But first try what Chris 
suggested below.  I am about half sure that the specific problem is on 
your system.  It is possible that you need to delete something in 
HOMEDIR/.idlerc/ but lets see what the error message is.  Have you been 
using IDLE a while, or just started?

> That sounds like a very interesting problem. Can you try running it
> from the command line, please? I'm not sure how to open one up from
> Win 8, but it should be in the Start menu somewhere, or possibly press
> Windows+R and type "cmd". With that up, type this:
>
> python -m idlelib.idle
>
> That should open up the same IDLE window that you know and recognize.
> Do the exact same thing that caused the unexpected termination, and
> then you should go back to the command prompt - hopefully with some
> sort of error message. Copy and paste that message (as text, please,
> not an image) into an email; that information could be very helpful.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy