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Jerome

Member

Registered: 2016-02-26

Posts: 148

Python IDE not working

This isn't really a Q4OS problem but maybe the team can give me some advice. I've installed the python ide "idle" (python 3) but it won't won't run from the start menu and when I run it from the command line I get this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/idle3", line 5, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1540, in main
    root = Tk(className="Idle")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1854, in __init__
    self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
_tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND"

Obviously a bug. Any suggestions?

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,230

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Re: Python IDE not working

Looks like a Debian bug affecting TK gui applications. Clearing out the X resources fixes the problem:

$ xrdb -load /dev/null
$ xrdb -query

Dai_trying

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,989

Re: Python IDE not working

If you are coding in python you could try Pycharm community edition, I use it all the time for writing python code and it is very good, although it is a lot heavier on resources than using idle but I consider it justified because of the extra functionality. Just my opinion of course.

Jerome

Member

Registered: 2016-02-26

Posts: 148

Re: Python IDE not working

Thanks team, you guys are awesome!

@ Dai_trying, thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at it.