Having a problem getting python working...

[Ned Deily]

In article <6E09A0F4-B9A6-4C9F-874B-CB6E21EF7A45 at gmail.com>,
 Chris Paton <chrispaton2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right place to put this (forgive me for my ignorance, 
> I'm looking everywhere!). I'm having a problem getting IDLE working. I'm 
> working off Mac OSX 10.6.7 with Python 3.2 installed and I installed 
> Activetcl 8.5.9 as recommended. IDLE is still crashing at random moments - 
> loading, saving, typing, compiling... I tried to do a simple 'hello world' 
> but it kept crashing. There's no official report; I just get the spinning 
> beach ball then have to force quit. I'm quite new to all of this so any help 
> would be extremely appreciated. Need to get into this ASAP as I need to do 
> some stuff for my thesis project! 

Sorry for the late response but if you can document how to reproduce the 
crashes or have a crash report that would be great.  But, first, are you 
sure you were using IDLE 3.2 and not the Apple-supplied IDLE 2.6 in OS X 
10.6?  The latter will definitely exhibit that behavior.  If you are 
installed Python 3.2 from one of the python.org installers, IDLE 3.2 
will be available in /Applications/Python 3.2/ or as 
/usr/local/bin/idle3.2.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org