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Author ned.deily
Recipients Careaga, barry, darkspork, dpogg1, gpolo, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, terry.reedy, wordtech
Date 2011-03-09.03:12:57
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Now that ActiveState has released a version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 (8.5.9.2) for Mac OS X that is also an Aqua Cocoa Tk (like the Apple-supplied Tk 8.5.7 in 10.6) and supports 64-bit, versions of Python linked with the new ActiveTcl 8.5.9 do not display the problem reported here as well as a number of other problems reported elsewhere.  Unfortunately, as released, the Apple-supplied Python 2.6.1 in 10.6 links only to the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5.  Unless Apple releases an updated version of their Tcl/Tk 8.5, the best solution is to avoid using the IDLE 2.6 supplied with OS X 10.6.

There is now a webpage that summarizes the somewhat confusing state of affairs with regard to Tcl/Tk support with Python on Mac OS X.  While it is focused on Python installers downloadable from python.org, it does mention the Apple IDLE 2.6.1 problems:

http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/
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2011-03-09 03:12:58ned.deilysetrecipients: + ned.deily, barry, terry.reedy, ronaldoussoren, wordtech, gpolo, dpogg1, darkspork, Careaga
2011-03-09 03:12:58ned.deilysetmessageid: <1299640378.16.0.670357168197.issue6864@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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