[Python-Dev] Fwd: IDLE on a Mac

[Ned Deily]

In article <nad-E370E7.08321206022009 at news.gmane.org>,
 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article <77F954DE-354D-4D9B-8C25-54597052E0D0 at cox.net>,
>  ringhome <ringhome at cox.net> wrote:
> > > I am, however, having a small difficulty at home on my Mac.   Not  
> > > willing to wait for a nice, pre-packaged bundle, I went and  
> > > downloaded the files and built 3.0 myself.  The issue comes from  
> > > launching the IDLE.app from the Mac GUI versus a Terminal Shell.   
> > > From the GUI, IDLE launches fine, but the FILE dropdown menu only  
> > > has "Recent Files" in it.  No way to create new one, save, etc.
> Definitely not a feature!  There are a few known problems with 3.x IDLE 
> on OS X.  I'm in the final stages of testing several patches which, 
> among other things should solve that problem.

Perhaps there might help:
  <http://bugs.python.org/issue5194>
  <http://bugs.python.org/issue5195>
  <http://bugs.python.org/issue5196>

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org