[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 32-bit on Snow Leopard with tkinter/IDLE (was: Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x)

[Chris Barker]

Tom,

Thanks for the summary.

Tom Loredo wrote:
> I should have added:  If you're happy with 32-bit Python on Snow Leopard
> and have no need to build from source, just do as Chris recommended
> earlier:  Use Python.org's installer.  It is built on an earlier OS
> than SL and links against Apple's Tcl/Tk 8.4, so when you install
> it on SL, it finds the 8.4 version that Apple includes in SL for
> backward compatibility.

And also works with wxPython, MPL, scipy, numpy, and many many other 
third part packages.

-Chris


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