So her is my problem I have a Macbook running OS 10.6.5 and i have python 2.x and 3.x installed on it and I can run python in the terminal but if I try to run the idle it just bounces for a few seconds then disappears. can anyone help.
Gh0st93 0 Newbie Poster
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
Can you run python idle.py from a terminal ? It would give you the error message ... (I never used a mac)
griswolf 304 Veteran Poster
There is a known problem with tkinter on that version of Mac OS (32 versus 4 bit problem). http://bugs.python.org/issue9227
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
Um I don't use tkinter but as for running idle.py I try to run it and it gives me no such directory error.
can you post the full traceback ?
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file 'idle.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
thats it
idle.py should be in idlelib. Try this in a python interpreter
>>> import idlelib
>>> print(idlelib.__file__)it should give you the path to idlelib.
Gh0st93 0 Newbie Poster
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/__init__.pyc
thats what it gave me.
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/__init__.pyc
thats what it gave me.
Then try python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/idle.py
Gh0st93 0 Newbie Poster
it started the idle
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
it started the idle
great !
Gh0st93 0 Newbie Poster
is that how I have to start the IDLE from now on
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
is that how I have to start the IDLE from now on
I don't know mac osx well enough (not at all in fact). You could perhaps make a shortcut to idle.py on your desktop and see if a menu allows you to execute the script, or a double click...
You could also post the problem in the mac osx forum http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum109.html
Gh0st93 0 Newbie Poster
Well I was trying to fix the Idle so I could use SPE cause that doesn't work as well I thought they might be related I'm not sure.
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
Well I was trying to fix the Idle so I could use SPE cause that doesn't work as well I thought they might be related I'm not sure.
Have a look in this page too http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments
Gh0st93 0 Newbie Poster
well I haven't found any SPE troubleshooting so is there any other free python IDEs you can recommend cause I'm not sure what to use what do you use?
Gribouillis 1,391 Programming Explorer Team Colleague
well I haven't found any SPE troubleshooting so is there any other free python IDEs you can recommend cause I'm not sure what to use what do you use?
No I can't recommend an ide. I'm using a home-made ide :). But try spyder, it looks promising.
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