Jean-Jacques B writes:
I am trying to set up my iMac for the book, having trouble with the automator script:
open -a "Applications/Python 3.2/IDLE.app" --args -n
Run Shell Script failed open: unrecognized option '--args'
I can get python to launch the other ways, but then turtle doesn't work.
This had me stumped for a moment (couldn't find any similar errors when I googled).
It actually looks like a poorly handled error in the Automator. If you copy+paste what you entered into the Terminal, you get an entirely different error message:
$ open -a "Applications/Python 3.2/IDLE.app" --args -n
Unable to find application named 'Applications/Python 3.2/IDLE.app'Which hopefully helps you figure out where you went wrong... try adding a / (slash) in front of the path to IDLE. eg.:
open -a "/Applications/Python 3.2/IDLE.app" --args -n