[Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to install?

[engelbert gruber]

on my mac it says wish8.5 if i start it from cmdline

and /usr/bin/python Tkinter.TkVersion is 8.5

or am i missing something ?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ronald Oussoren
<ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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> On 30 Aug, 2010, at 20:54, Russell E. Owen wrote:
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>> However, the python.org binaries all use Tcl/Tk 8.4 (presumably because
>> that is the version Apple ships with MacOS X), which does not support
>> tile/ttk.
>
> Your assumption is correct: the python.org binaries are linked with Tk 8.4 because that is what Apple ships.
>
> There will be an intel-only installer for 2.7.1 and 3.2 that does use Tk 8.5, I haven't had time to work on that  yet though (as usual the OSX port for Tk 8.5 contains backward incompatible changes for platform-specific behaviour like the application menu and those changes break IDLE; there is a patch for that on the python tracker which I need to properly test and integrate).
>
> Ronald
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