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CodeKingPlusPlus
CodeKingPlusPlus

Reputation: 16081

IDLE crashes on my Mac

I've never used Python before and wanted to get started. I am running Mac OSX 10.5.8 and everytime I open IDLE I get the following error message:

The application IDLE quit unexpectedly

I just downloaded Python 2.7 because I heard that it had the most library support and I was very excited about the C/C++ Python interfacing capabilities. I did see other users on this site having similar problems but I still did not figure my issue out.

Any ideas on how I can get IDLE to run on my Mac?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2862

Answers (2)

billwild
billwild

Reputation: 173

On mac idle crashes when you import something big from outside, when you copy-paste something and when you click on preferences. Copy-paste error message:

IDLE quit unexpectedly

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

All the version of python crashes on mac. So far, i didn't see any solution to this problem. I strongly recommend you to use iep. It has all the version of python and you don't need to save the file to run it.

Here is a link to iep editor

Upvotes: 0

astronautlevel
astronautlevel

Reputation: 488

python 3.x is better for macs. try downloading it here and using IDLE.

Upvotes: 1

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