nad0027 OS X IDLE has two Preferences menus on 2.6.x with Tk > 8.4.7 Analysis idlelib/macosxSupport.py in 2.6.1 & 2.6.2 is missing a couple of key fixes for running with newer versions of Tk. Solution Backport from trunk (Issue6100/r72946)/ Applies 2.6 diff -r fdcbd05c5067 Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py --- Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py Sat Sep 19 18:47:59 2009 -0700 +++ Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py Sun Sep 20 00:47:06 2009 -0700 @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ def config_dialog(event=None): import configDialog + root.instance_dict = flist.inversedict configDialog.ConfigDialog(root, 'Settings') @@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ tkversion = root.tk.eval('info patchlevel') # Note: we cannot check if the string tkversion >= '8.4.14', because # the string '8.4.7' is greater than the string '8.4.14'. - if map(int, tkversion.split('.')) >= (8, 4, 14): + if tuple(map(int, tkversion.split('.'))) >= (8, 4, 14): Bindings.menudefs[0] = ('application', [ ('About IDLE', '<>'), None,