[Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter apps hang upon quitting

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 23 Jul, 2008, at 0:24, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> Leonardo Santagada wrote:
>
>> Someone should do a table with the best version of tk for each  
>> version of python... Tk 8.5 works with the python that comes with  
>> leopard?
>
> No.
>
> The problem here is that Tk and Python don't move in sync. At the  
> time of Python 2.5's release, the main line of Tk development was  
> still 8.4.x, so the binary distributions of Python link against Tk  
> 8.4.x.
>
> Tk 8.5 was released last December, and is a big improvement over Tk  
> 8.4. However, Python's binary distributions (for Mac and Windows,  
> anyway) still link against Tk 8.4.x.
>
> There's nothing to prevent you from doing your own build of Python  
> with Tk 8.5. That's what I've done. However, upping the "default  
> version" of Tk is actually a pretty big deal in the Python world,  
> and likely won't be done officially until Python 2.6.
>
> As the maintainer of Python-Mac, perhaps Ronald can chime in here.  
> Ronald, what's your take on this? Any idea when the binary distro of  
> MacPython will look for Tk 8.5 by default?

I don't know. Does Tkinter even work with Tcl/Tk 8.5?  I don't use  
Tkinter myself, but I'm pretty sure I've seen some messages about  
problems with Tk 8.5 in the past. Those may have been resolved for  
Python 2.6.

Ronald