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:
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
>> 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
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