Mac OS X 10.6.6 and MacPyhton 2.6 idle doesn't work

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<7e5a3cc6-93d0-4750-93cd-fe721960d706 at u26g2000vby.googlegroups.com>,
 mando <mandoluca at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the result of the test you suggested to me. What do you think?
> 
> Last login: Mon Jun 27 19:35:21 on ttys000
> host220-186-dynamic:~ luca$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
> Versions/2.6
> host220-186-dynamic:2.6 luca$ cd ./lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/
> host220-186-dynamic:lib-dynload luca$ otool -L _tkinter.so
> _tkinter.so (architecture ppc):
> 	/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Tcl (compatibility
> version 8.5.0, current version 8.5.1)
> 	/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.5/Tk (compatibility
> version 8.5.0, current version 8.5.1)
> 	/usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
> 47.1.0)
> 	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
> version 88.3.9)
> _tkinter.so (architecture i386):
> 	/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Tcl (compatibility
> version 8.5.0, current version 8.5.1)
> 	/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.5/Tk (compatibility
> version 8.5.0, current version 8.5.1)
> 	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
> version 88.3.9)

I'm not sure where you got that version of Python from but the output 
from otool is definitely not that of a _tkinter.so from the standard 
python.org 2.6.6 installer and it explains the results you are seeing. 
 If you want to stick with the python.org Python 2.6, I suggest you 
download the latest installer from here:
   http://python.org/download/releases/2.6.6/
and re-install.

Good luck.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org