Hi All,
I'm Having a problem getting IDLE to load and run.
I am using windows 7. I have python running and can use the interactive shell but IDLE does not want to run?

Question

Hi All,
I'm Having a problem getting IDLE to load and run.
I am using windows 7. I have python running and can use the interactive shell but IDLE does not want to run?

anonymous · Answer

On my machine, there is a 'link' in the Start menu for Idle.  Start | Python27 | Idle (Python GUI).  When you click that it doesn't run?

anonymous · Answer

In windows, running C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\idle.py launches idle from the command prompt. Obviously you will need to adjust your path if your main Python directory isn't C:\Python26\.

It looks like you could also launch it via idle.pyw or idle.bat in that same directory.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks for the responses, I added the path to  idle to my profile  and now it launches fine. 
Cheers Peter b