I tried your suggestion but electrum crashes whether restoring wallet or creating new wallet the following error:
python electrum.py create
Password (hit return if you do not wish to encrypt your wallet):
-snip-
That seems to be the previous version that you launched (
v0.30) and not the alpha version.
It should ask for a passphrase before the password, plus the first version has "
electrum" not "
electrum.py".
I'm afraid I can't help you with the alpha version since it's not continuing nor creating the wallet in my tests either.
I tried to reach out to thomasv; however it said he does not accept messages from newbies. So I'm wondering if one of you guys can point him out to this post.
You can find the developers in Electrum's GitHub repository, here:
github.com/spesmilo/electrumContributors are in "
Insights->Contributors".