On 21 Jan 2011, at 21:12, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> 
> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> 
>> I see your point. The problem is that IDLE is somewhat included with
>> Python (so in a sense it is not "3rd party"), and seems like a good
>> tool for learning Python: my concern is similar to that in message
>> 126276 <http://bugs.python.org/msg126276>.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is little we can do about this (IIUC). One option
> would be to include a fixed Tk version, but there is none to include
> (IIUC). The only real solution to "fix" both the reported problem and
> the problem of msg126276 would be to stop including IDLE with the MacOS
> distributions, and asking users who want to use IDLE to switch to
> Linux or Windows.

(:-)

I hope you will not consider to also stop including tkinter!

Nestor