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  The idle gui lmzentman@gmail.com - 2015-03-13 13:58 -0700
    Re: The idle gui sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-03-13 14:58 -0700
      Re: The idle gui Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-14 12:24 +1100
        Re: The idle gui Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-13 21:35 -0400
        Re: The idle gui Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-14 20:57 +1100
          Re: The idle gui Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-14 08:16 -0700
        Re: The idle gui Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-14 09:04 -0400
        Re: The idle gui Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-15 09:59 +1100
    Re: The idle gui Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-13 22:12 +0000
    Re: The idle gui Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-03-14 14:37 -0400

#87382 — The idle gui

My python program was running for over six weeks. Then the idle gui stopped opening. I have reinstalled several times but it doesn't work. Any idea?

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#87386

On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 1:58:44 PM UTC-7, lmze...@gmail.com wrote:
> My python program was running for over six weeks. Then the idle gui stopped opening. I have reinstalled several times but it doesn't work. Any idea?

Not trying to be rude here, but do you really think we'll be able to help you when all you say is "It doesn't work"?

What error message do you get?

What exactly isn't working?  Does IDLE not start *AT ALL*?  Or is your Python program just not working?

What version of Python/IDLE are you running?

What operating system?

We need more information than just "It doesn't work".  You wouldn't go to a car mechanic and say "It makes a funny noise", would you?  No.  You'd say "It makes a metallic whining noise, like the brakes of a bus or semi-truck, when I make right-turns after going over a bump.  It sounds like its coming from the rear driver-side wheel."

Being up-front and describing your problem in detail saves everybody time.

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#87400

sohcahtoa82@gmail.com wrote:


> We need more information than just "It doesn't work".  You wouldn't go to
> a car mechanic and say "It makes a funny noise", would you?  No.

Actually, most likely yes.It's remarkably hard to describe noises, and often
difficult to pin-point where they come from. My wife and I can sit in the
same car, listening to the same noise, and she swears it is coming from the
front left and I'm sure its coming from the rear right. (Invariably she's
correct.)

But at least the car mechanic can jump in the car and take it for a drive.



-- 
Steven

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#87416

On 03/13/2015 09:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> sohcahtoa82@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>> We need more information than just "It doesn't work".  You wouldn't go to
>> a car mechanic and say "It makes a funny noise", would you?  No.
>
> Actually, most likely yes.It's remarkably hard to describe noises, and often
> difficult to pin-point where they come from. My wife and I can sit in the
> same car, listening to the same noise, and she swears it is coming from the
> front left and I'm sure its coming from the rear right. (Invariably she's
> correct.)
>
> But at least the car mechanic can jump in the car and take it for a drive.
>

Not if you don't take it to him.  If you just call him on the phone, and 
say "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the 
vehicle is.  Or whether it's even a car.  Maybe "it" is a son who 
refuses to get a job.


-- 
DaveA

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#87417

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> Not if you don't take it to him.  If you just call him on the phone, and say
> "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the vehicle
> is.  Or whether it's even a car.  Maybe "it" is a son who refuses to get a
> job.

In the OP's defense, we were at least told that the "idle gui" was the
thing that didn't work. So unless you named your son "gui", we can
safely assume that this isn't the case :)

ChrisA

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#87420

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 3:28:11 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dave Angel  wrote:
> > Not if you don't take it to him.  If you just call him on the phone, and say
> > "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the vehicle
> > is.  Or whether it's even a car.  Maybe "it" is a son who refuses to get a
> > job.
> 
> In the OP's defense, we were at least told that the "idle gui" was the
> thing that didn't work. So unless you named your son "gui", we can
> safely assume that this isn't the case :)
> 
> ChrisA

Saw this yesterday on the Haskell list:

"How do I use lens confusing?"
"You mean 'it's confusing'?"
"No, I mean Control.Lens.Traversal.confusing"

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#87442

On 03/14/2015 05:57 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
>> Not if you don't take it to him.  If you just call him on the phone, and say
>> "Jimmy doesn't work" he doesn't even know what make and model the vehicle
>> is.  Or whether it's even a car.  Maybe "it" is a son who refuses to get a
>> job.
>
> In the OP's defense, we were at least told that the "idle gui" was the
> thing that didn't work. So unless you named your son "gui", we can
> safely assume that this isn't the case :)
>

I wasn't actually trying to pick on the OP this time, but to make a 
joke.  Jimmy is the common nickname model of an SUV (truck/car), by 
General Motors. Idle could be taken two ways (if it weren't for the 
capitalization), or even three  (My Chevy won't idle.).

My father used to tell a triple pun involving the John Deere, and I 
can't recall it.

It's been said that puns are the lowest form of humor, but I rather like 
them.

-- 
DaveA

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#87456

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> I wasn't actually trying to pick on the OP this time, but to make a joke.
> Idle could be taken two ways (if it weren't for the capitalization), or even
> three  (My Chevy won't idle.).

Beware the Idles of March?

ChrisA

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#87388

On 13/03/2015 20:58, lmzentman@gmail.com wrote:
> My python program was running for over six weeks. Then the idle gui stopped opening. I have reinstalled several times but it doesn't work. Any idea?
>

Would you please read http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html 
and possibly http://sscce.org/ and then repost your question, thank you.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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#87440

On 3/13/2015 4:58 PM, lmzentman@gmail.com wrote:
> My python program was running for over six weeks.

This is not clear.  Do you mean that you wrote a program in python and 
that it ran continously, day and night, for 6 weeks?  Or that you 
successfully used python on and off for 6 weeks?  In either case, what 
version of python and what platform?

> Then the idle gui stopped opening.

How are you trying to open Idle?  When happens when you try?  In any 
case, try opening from a command line with 'python -m idlelib' (or 
idlelib.idle on 2.7 or before).

 > I have reinstalled several times but it doesn't work.

What does not work?  Python itself or just Idle?

> Any idea?

One reason that Idle can stop working is that you (or something) made a 
bad configuration change.  The way to fix this is to find .idlerc in 
your home directory and empty it to remove the bad configuration.

Another possible reason is that you installed something or made a change 
to a system setting that interferes with Idle starting.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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