[Pythonmac-SIG] IDLE and MacPython 2.5

[rodneys at io.com]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> Do you have a custom version of Tcl/Tk in /Library/Frameworks? What does
> the following command print:
> $ otool -Lv
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so
>
> It seems that I have a custom version of Tk installed on my build machine
> (without knowing it), which means _tkinter.so links to
> /Library/Frameworks/{Tcl,Tk}.framework instead of the system ones. There's
> obviously a fallback to the system one because I don't have this framework
> on my laptop, yet IDLE works there.  If you do have a Tk.framework in
> /Library/Frameworks as well you could try to move that (and Tcl.framework)
> aside, although I don't know what that might break.
>
> Could you add a '#' before line 26 in
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
> and then add a line with 'pass' just below that to make hideTkConsole a
> valid function again? That should get you going again.

Thank you very much. It turned out that I had previously installed
ActiveState Tcl. I removed the Tcl and Tk frameworks from
/Library/Frameworks and IDLE launched with no problem. I didn't even need
to comment line 26 and add the pass command.

So, everything seems to be working properly again.

-Rodney