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Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN

From Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN
Date 2015-11-01 15:01 +0000
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On 01/11/2015 14:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> I remember from a few weeks back, a
>> teacher with the same problem posted this on the mailinglist. Eventually
>> she had a technician coming in to reinstall Windows, just to fix this
>> problem ;-) What an overkill...
>
> If that is true, that's really sad. Were we really unable to tell this
> teacher to delete the shadowing file? Or was there more to the problem than
> that?

We tried, over the course of several days. It looked like a simple 
"delete this and try again" problem. After a couple of iterations she 
and her tech support obviously decided that re-imaging the lab machines 
was a better use of their time to achieve their goal (get the thing 
working) than further distance-learning diagnostics.

TJG

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Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-01 02:45 +0100
  Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-02 01:27 +1100
    Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-11-01 15:01 +0000
    Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-01 17:17 +0100
      Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-02 11:54 +1100
    Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-01 19:07 -0500
      Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-01 16:50 -0800
        Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-02 02:46 -0500
      Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-02 12:19 +1100
        Re: UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 13:08 +1100

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