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[Q] How to use IDLE in redhat

Young-Jin Lee ylee12 at uiuc.edu
Tue Jan 8 12:14:15 EST 2002 
Hi, I'm new to redhat. I was using Python in windows and now I was trying to
move to Redhat.
I thought it would be easy to use IDLE in redhat linux, but it turned out to
be a bit difficult.
After posting a few questions on the tutor at python.org list, I came to know
that I should setup IDLE by
"$ cd .../Tools/idle
$ python2.2 ./setup.py".

When I tried the aboves, python asked me to specify the option and command,
but I have no idea what to do.
Here is the message I got:
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help.

I also tried "python2 ./setup.py idle", but it didn't work, either.

Thanks in advance.

YJ
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