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IDLE not opening #48848

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ec2929 mannequin opened this issue Dec 8, 2008 · 6 comments
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IDLE not opening #48848

ec2929 mannequin opened this issue Dec 8, 2008 · 6 comments

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ec2929 mannequin commented Dec 8, 2008

BPO 4598
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title = 'IDLE not opening'
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ec2929 mannequin commented Dec 8, 2008

Fresh install, IDLE does not open. Cannot find tk tcl. Reference
bpo-4049. Problem reported in Python 2.5 and 3.0 on Windows.

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loewis mannequin commented Dec 8, 2008

Do you have TCL_LIBRARY or TK_LIBRARY environment variables set?

This is a very obscure behavior - the installer is known to work on many
machines, including IDLE. So something must be particular with your
Windows installation.

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ec2929 mannequin commented Dec 9, 2008

No, I don't have those set.

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loewis mannequin commented Dec 9, 2008

Ok, then please run, in a cmd.exe shell, in the Python directory

python.exe Lib\idlelib\idle.py

and report its output.

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ec2929 mannequin commented Dec 10, 2008

It is working now though so there is no error message anymore. I had to move tk and tcl Python25/Lib. When I hadn't done that, it said it was looking for tk8.4 under a series of directories and it didn't find it. When I moved tk8.4 folder to under Python25/Lib, it complained about not being able to find tcl8.4. So I found that directory under Python25/Tcl and moved it to Python25/Lib.

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loewis mannequin commented Dec 10, 2008

Ok, closing that as not reproducable, then.

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