[Pythonmac-SIG] Python IDE 2.3.2 problems (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl
Fri Nov 19 00:13:17 CET 2004

On 18-nov-04, at 22:28, Just van Rossum wrote:

2. When I need to run a program that should use the "Tkinter" module (I'm running Tickle 8.4.4) I can only briefly see the widgets I've created -- then the IDE, and my application as well, vanish, quit with no alert, no warning, no nothing... However, when I use the Python Launcher (v2.3 by Jack Jansen) to launch that very same program, everything works okay. What's wrong with my installation?

This is an intrinsic shortcoming of the IDE. Actually, I would think that the "Run with commandline Python" option was designed to work around that shortcoming...

Indeed (was it you or me who put it in?:-), but you lose debugging and introspection, so you're really only able to use the editor portion of the IDE.

If I understand things correctly Idle has solved this issue, and allows you to run your program in a different process than the IDE but still allowing you to debug. At some point we should probably steal this code.

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