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  • +1, thank you for this. Just a note: DON'T install Python under Program Files because of the space in the pathname! Virtualenv was failing for me, and re-installing Python under C:\ (default) fixed it. Commented May 4, 2012 at 15:41
  • I could not get the idle.bat file to work on my Python 2.7 system, even after creating the symbolic folder links. I initially created them under Lib, and idle.bat launch failed. Then I created a folder called tcl under the virtual environment, and created the symbolic folder links there, and it still produced an error:Traceback (most recent call last): "... _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: {C:\Users\AMS\my_env\tcl\tcl8.5} C:/Python27/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Users/AMS/my_env/lib/tcl8.5 ... This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly." Any ideas? Commented May 4, 2012 at 15:56
  • OK, copying the two folders as Tim has pointed out below (instead of symbolic links) fixed the problem, and I can launch IDLE through idle.bat. Commented May 4, 2012 at 16:00