[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

> I've made up a sample page, at http://bill.janssen.org/new- 
> macpython-page.html.
>
> This is the kind of thing I'd like to see replace the page at
> http://www.python.org/download/download_mac.html.

import statements don't use quotes (import idlelib.idle, not import  
"idlelib.idle")

OS X 10.3 did not ship with Tkinter so IDLE isn't going to work there
OS X 10.2 did not ship with a usable version of Python.  Python  
2.2.0, especially the way they built it, is nearly unusably bug- 
ridden.  It's hardly even worth mentioning that Python shipped with  
that release of the OS.

If they don't use "pythonw" to start Python, they won't be able to  
talk to GUI stuff except for what happens to be tkinter based.  The  
instructions will have to say to use pythonw.  Though IDLE and other  
tkinter-based stuff will work due to a hack that's in that release of  
Tk (the one that ships with 10.4, anyway), nothing else will, so you  
really need to tell people to use pythonw.  pythonw is perfectly good  
at running every Python app, so there's no reason to have them run  
anything else for any purpose...

-bob