pythonw.exe is not responding

Question

I have been learning Python2.7 for a little bit now. I\'m using Windows 7 64 bit BTW. I started learning GUI\'s and have been trying to use wxpython and IDLE for this. So I type

Answer 1

The crash is most likely happening at the point when you try and start the event loop. See this bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue989712

Seems someone else has gone as far to try and create an extension to handle this ability: http://idlex.sourceforge.net/extensions.html

Basically, don't do this from IDLE. Write a script and run it from the shell or the script directly if in windows, by naming it with a .pyw extension and double clicking it. There is apparently a conflict between IDLE's own event loop and the ones from GUI toolkits.