Help with Tkinter and MacPython

[Russell E. Owen]

If you don't get a more helpful answer from a more knowledgeable user, 
it might help to tell us:
- what version of Python?
- what version of Mac OS?

I have found Tkinter to be solid under Python 1.5.2, 2.0 and 2.1 with a 
few exceptions:
- user-added menus seem to have crashing bugs under all versions (I 
suspect bugs in Tk, not Tkinter, since I also tried Tk and had bad 
things happen)
- file events are broken in Mac Python 2.0 and 2.1
- 1.5.2 doesn't install Tkinter quite correctly, but the fixes are easy 
(I think just adding items to the search path). Both 2.0 and 2.1 install 
Tkinter perfectly
- 1.5.2 (and possibly later versions) act very badly if you use "enter 
interactive mode after script"

Also, there are at least two standard gotchas, both well documented in 
the ReadMe:
- All versions of MacPython require you to drop a script on 
PythonInterpreter. Never try to run Tk scripts in Python IDE!
- MacPython 2.0 and 2.1 must be used in Classic mode to run Tkinter 
scripts, because there is no Carbon version of Tkinter.

-- Russell

In article <3B140FA6.C16FFE33 at spiritone.com>,
 Josh English <english at spiritone.com> wrote:

>I am going through both Programming Python 2nd edition and Python
>Annotated archives and the lessons these books have for Tkinter. I can
>run the basic 'Hello World' programs, but when I click on the button,
>the window doesn't close half the time. If I try to run it again I get
>an error that reads: "Menu ID 256 is already in use!Fatal Python error:
>Tcl/Tk panic"...