Re: [Visualpython-users] can't bring up help files

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

I don't understand some of this, but I did find that somehow the Windows 
VPython download contained the wrong version of 
Python21\Tools\idle_vpython. So I've rebuilt the VPython package.

--On Tuesday, December 04, 2001 21:05 -0500 Joe Heafner <hea...@vn...> 
wrote:

> Yesterday I installed Python 2.1.1 and the latest Visual (2001-11-18) on
> my WinME notebook. I accepted all default installation options (folders
> names, etc.) and the installation went smoothly. However, now F1 will not
> bring up the help files. Trying to access the help files from IDLE's menu
> doesn't work either. Pressing F1 repeatedly about 6 or 7 times causes
> IDLE to crash and generates an error in kernel.exe (kernel.dll?) and I
> have to restart the computer. Ctrl-alt-del doesn't even work. I've tried
> everything I can think of. F1 still works on all my desktop computers,
> and the EditorWindow.py file (?) is the same on all of the machines. I'm
> lost as to how to fix this.
>
> One thing that may be important. After installing Python 2.1.1, I noticed
> that the uninstall of Python 2.0 was not complete. The \Python20 folder
> tree had been left behind so I just dropped the whole tree into the
> recycle bin. I don't think this would have caused this problem though.