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  Re: Compatibility Issues - Windows 8 Marcos Almeida Azevedo <marcos.al.azevedo@gmail.com> - 2015-02-24 12:59 +0800
    Re: Compatibility Issues - Windows 8 blakemalc66@gmail.com - 2015-02-24 12:13 -0800
      Running Idle on  Windows 8 (.1) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-02-24 20:29 -0500
      Re: Running Idle on Windows 8 (.1) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 08:49 -0700

#86309 — Re: Compatibility Issues - Windows 8

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Hi, Iris

Did you try installing via msi installer?  Example
https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.3/python-3.4.3rc1.msi

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:

> On 2/23/2015 10:56 PM, Iris J Rosario wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’ve been having problems with running python IDLE on my Windows 8
>> tower. Can you please let me know where I can rea up on how to correct
>> it? Or which version will work best on my computer?
>>
>
> How did you install Python?  How are you trying to run Idle?
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> Terry Jan Reedy
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#86342

On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 9:36:20 PM UTC+11, Marcos Almeida Azevedo wrote:
> Hi, Iris
> 
> Did you try installing via msi installer?  Example https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.3/python-3.4.3rc1.msi
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjr...@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 2/23/2015 10:56 PM, Iris J Rosario wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
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> 
> I've been having problems with running python IDLE on my Windows 8
> 
> tower. Can you please let me know where I can rea up on how to correct
> 
> it? Or which version will work best on my computer?
> 
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> 
> How did you install Python?  How are you trying to run Idle?
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> Terry Jan Reedy
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> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> Marcos | I love PHP, Linux, and Java
Hi all

I too can not get idle to run on win 8.1 using python3.4.2 installed from the python-3.4.2.amd64.msi.

pythonw.exe appears in the task manager but no gui is displayed. 

Cheers

Malcolm

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#86369 — Running Idle on Windows 8 (.1)

On 2/24/2015 3:13 PM, blakemalc66@gmail.com wrote:

> I too can not get idle to run on win 8.1 using python3.4.2 installed from the python-3.4.2.amd64.msi.

What experience have others had with Idle and Windows 8?

The OP for
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28633690/python-installation-troubleshooting

wrote in a comment "I am invoking it from a win8 startmenu program, so I 
tried to do it via the normal windows 8 interface and it works from there,"

I do not know what 'normal windows 8 interface' means, but does it work 
for anyone else?

> pythonw.exe appears in the task manager but no gui is displayed.

pythonw.exe should appear *twice* in task manager.
Please try 3.4.3rc1 and 3.5.0a1
https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

If the Idle does not start correctly on Win 8, perhaps we could fix it 
before 3.4.3 final (which should be soon).

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Terry Jan Reedy

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#86410 — Re: Running Idle on Windows 8 (.1)

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 2/24/2015 3:13 PM, blakemalc66@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I too can not get idle to run on win 8.1 using python3.4.2 installed from
>> the python-3.4.2.amd64.msi.
>
>
> What experience have others had with Idle and Windows 8?
>
> The OP for
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28633690/python-installation-troubleshooting
>
> wrote in a comment "I am invoking it from a win8 startmenu program, so I
> tried to do it via the normal windows 8 interface and it works from there,"
>
> I do not know what 'normal windows 8 interface' means, but does it work for
> anyone else?
>
>> pythonw.exe appears in the task manager but no gui is displayed.
>
>
> pythonw.exe should appear *twice* in task manager.
> Please try 3.4.3rc1 and 3.5.0a1
> https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
>
> If the Idle does not start correctly on Win 8, perhaps we could fix it
> before 3.4.3 final (which should be soon).

I just tried both of those (32-bit only) in a Windows 8.1 VM and had
no problems starting Idle.

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