Re: The idle gui

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: The idle gui
Date	2015-03-14 14:37 -0400
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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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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

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