[Python-3000] What do do about IDLE?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 8-mei-2006, at 4:07, Bill Janssen wrote:

> Aahz,
>
>> First of all, Mac users downloading a release get Tk automatically.
>
> Good idea!
>
> I run on a Mac, and don't download -- I use the pre-installed Python
> on the Mac.  And there's no Tk.

What version of OSX are you using? /usr/bin/python on 10.4 has support
for tkinter.

>
> Much as we might like to think otherwise, there's no standard GUI in
> the Python core, and IDLE (or anything else that depends on it) won't
> work in some cases where it should work.

Yes there is. Some distributors are lame enough to think they know  
better
and ship parts of the standard library seperately, but that's not a  
valid
reason for removing parts of the stdlib.

Ronald

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