Re: Python Interpreter exits when Display window is closed

The deep puzzle is why anything works at all, as there isn't a version
of VPython that has been built for Windows 64-bit Python. Here are the
instructions on the Windows download page at vpython.org:

First, download and install Python-2.7.2 (Important: Let it install in
C:\Python27)
(There is not a VPython version for Windows 64-bit Python, but this
32-bit version of Python works fine on 64-bit Windows machines)
Second, download and install VPython-Win-Py2.7-5.74

Bruce Sherwood

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Gerrat Rickert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I’m running the 64-bit version of VPython 5.72
> (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#vpython), on Windows 7, with a
> normal, 64bit python 2.7.2 interpreter (not Vidle).
>
> I realize this isn’t an “official” version of VPython, but seems to work
> otherwise.
>
>
>
> From the interactive python prompt, with a simple program like:
>
> from visual import *
>
> sphere()
>
>
>
> It displays the sphere, but when I close the Display window, the python
> interpreter itself exits.
>
> Is there a way to prevent this?
>
>
>
> ...I can’t seem to use Vidle, if that’s the solution...either the 64bit
> version doesn’t install it correctly, or I’m not invoking it correctly
> (there is no desktop shortcut, and when I run idle.bat from the command line
> I get a “Windows cannot find ‘idle.pyw’.  Make sure you typed the name
> correctly, and then try again”.)  There is a file, idle.pyw in the vidle
> directory, so I’m not sure why it can’t find it.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any assistance,
>
> Gerrat
>
>
>
>
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