Re: [Tutor] IDLE problems FIXED

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Douglas Grant
Thanks Alan, It seems like it was a keybinding issue. When I dragged IDLE into a terminal window I got a laundry list of errors having to do with correct keys. I switched to a built in key set "classic mac", and I'm running. I really appreciated your help with this. Paul On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:

Re: [Tutor] IDLE problems

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Douglas Grant
Thanks again, I'm going to push my luck and ask you a final question on this subject, you've been really helpful. Should I be able to locate idle.py with a spotlight search. I can't seem to locate it... Here is what terminal gave me MacBook-001FF3569577-4:~ fedka2$ cd /Applications/Python\ 3.2 MacB

Re: [Tutor] IDLE problems

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Douglas Grant
>> OK, so from Finder. In that case can you open a Terminal window and >> drag the python folder into the Terminal - that should navigate you to >> the same folder. Then try running IDLE by typing >> >> python ./idle.py >> >> At the terminal prompt. > > > I meant to say that this will let you see a

[Tutor] IDLE problems

2012-03-06 Thread Paul Douglas Grant
Hello folks, I am new to programming and choosing python as my first language to learn, thus excuse the perhaps naiveté of this question and the way it is formulated. For the last few weeks I've been trying to solve an issue running python on mac snow leopard 10.6.8. I was running a version of pyt