Running Python's IDLE in windows

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

You can just add a path in your Environment variables tab in My Computer Properties --> Advanced as c:\\Python27\\Lib\\idlelib . After adding this path just write idle.pyw in cmd whenever you want to run IDLE.

Just make sure you replace the folder name with whatever directory name you have.