<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Ned Deily <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nad@acm.org">nad@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div class="im"> Tal Einat <<a href="mailto:taleinat@gmail.com">taleinat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Do you really need Python 3.2? You can install version 3.1 of Python using<br>
> Aptitude (manually with the command line or using Synaptic), and you should<br>
> get a working version of IDLE with Python 3.1.<br>
><br>
> If you really need Python 3.2, on its download page[1] there is a link to a<br>
> page regarding Tkinter[2] which should contain the required information on<br>
> which version of Tcl/Tk you need to install, and perhaps how.<br>
<br>
</div>If you are using Python 3, you should use Python 3.2.x if at all<br>
possible, not any earlier versions of Python 3. There are just too many<br>
bug fixes and performance improvements along with the new features.<br>
It's not like the difference between, say, Python 2.6 and 2.7. And<br>
maintenance on Python 3.1 by the Python-dev team has ceased; only any<br>
urgent security fix that might arise would be issued for 3.1.x.<br></blockquote><div><br>That's true.<br><br>Perhaps whoever is in charge of the Ubuntu package management system should be encouraged to update to Python 3.2 instead of 3.1? Installing IDLE otherwise is quite complicated -- nobody here on IDLE-dev has explained how to do it in the few days since the question was posted!<br>
<br>- Tal Einat<br></div></div></div>