Running Python's IDLE in windows

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Ram Rachum picture Ram Rachum · Nov 2, 2009 · Viewed 31.2k times · Source

I messed up my IDLE shortcut. What is the way to start IDLE from the cmd.exe shell in Windows?

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Mark Rushakoff picture Mark Rushakoff · Nov 2, 2009

On my system, running C:\Python26\lib\idlelib\idle.py launches idle from the command prompt. Obviously you will need to adjust your path if your main Python directory isn't C:\Python26\.

It looks like you could also launch it via idle.pyw or idle.bat in that same directory.

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