[Pythonmac-SIG] Confused Mac Newbie

[Russell E Owen]

For MacOS 9, you have a choice of running MacPython using Carbon or 
Classic. Only Classic supports Tkinter. To run using Classic 
double-click the application "ConfigurePythonClassic".

If you've not found the release notes, I suggest a careful read -- 
see "Relnotes" in the "Relnotes" folder.

Best of luck with the Mac port. Tkinter has some quirks under the Mac 
(as noted in the release notes). In particular:
- run your app by dragging it onto PythonInterpreter (do NOT use 
Python IDE for Tkinter applications)
- file events are broken
- your application may not yield many CPU cycles to background apps
- custom Menus may be flaky (I've never gotten them to work reliably)

Regards,

-- Russell

>...> ImportError: Tkinter not supported under Carbon (yet).
>
>We aren't running OS X!  Does anyone else have this problem?
>Is there a known problem with Tkinter on Python 2.1...