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  1. rfgreen, Nov 20, 2009

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    I have been playing with Python on Snow Leopard. Python come bundled with an IDE called "Idle". To invoke it, you open Terminal and enter "idle3.0".
    What I wanted to do is use Automator to set up a shell script so I can just double click it to open the ide. But when I open Automator, select Utilities>Run shell script and enter "idle3.0" (without quotes) it fails. Anybody help??
     
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  2. BlueRevolution, Nov 21, 2009

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    When it fails, are you getting some sort of error? When you run idle3.0, does it immediately return you to the command prompt? If not, you should try

    screen -d -m idle3.0

    to run it in a screen.
     
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