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moustachio
moustachio

Reputation: 3004

Can't launch IDLE after installing Enthought Canopy

I was previously running Enthought EPD 7.3.2, but switched over to Canopy (academic license). I completely uninstalled EPD before running the Canopy install.

After installing Canopy, I have a shortcut to IDLE in the Canopy start menu folder, but I can't get it to launch (I click it and nothing happens). Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Canopy, but am having the same issue.

Running the 64-bit version of Canopy on Win7, 64bit.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1855

Answers (2)

Yevgeni
Yevgeni

Reputation: 21

I had a similar problem and found a very simple solution. Try it out and see if it works in your situation too. There is a directory for the Canopy installation: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.7.4.3348.win-x86_64\Lib\idlelib

Find “idle.ico” file there, copy and paste it into “Icons” subdirectory. This fixed the problem!

Upvotes: 2

punchagan
punchagan

Reputation: 5846

Canopy 1.0 and 1.0.1 versions have problems with tcl and TKinter, and IDLE doesn't work. This should be fixed in an update, which is just round the corner.

As an afterthought, is there a specific reason you wish to use IDLE? Canopy's editor comes integrated with an IPython console (along with many other goodies), which gives a much better user experience while programming, IMO. (Disclaimer: I work for Enthought)

Upvotes: 0

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