[Tkinter-discuss] Tkinter in Python 2.6 under MacOSX

[Michael O'Donnell]

Hi Guilherme,

> can't do much. So if you know how to fix it would be very nice to
> submit the patch to the bug tracker, because apparently issue4017
> stopped progressing.

Someone posted to the bugtracker the following:

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[Kevin's post of 6.Oct, 02:58]
You can avoid this problem by building Python yourself and putting
/Library/Frameworks first on the search path for Tcl/Tk. Look in
setup.py in the source code, around line  1438 (in the
'detect_tkinter_darwin' function), and either comment out
/System/Library or put it underneath /Library/Frameworks. This is what
the official build from Python.org should do--look first in
/Library/Frameworks and then fall back on /System/Library/Frameworks.
I'm not sure why it doesn't.
-------------------

If that is all it takes to fix it, I've no idea why no-one
has done that and re-released the macosx distro.

I'll try and post on the python-dev list to see if
I can get some action.

Mick

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Michael O'Donnell
> <michael.odonnell at uam.es> wrote:
>>> Yes, I'm also unable to use Tkinter with python 2.6 on Mac OS X. There is an
>>> open bug about this:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4017
>>
>> I'm just curious,
>>
>> Given Python is the 6th most popular programming language
>> (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html)
>>
>> And Tkinter is the default GUI extension.
>>
>> How come a broken distribution of Python 2.6 for Mac can stay on the official
>> site for 6 weeks without being fixed, when it seems its a simple matter to make
>> a fixed binary distrib?
>>
>
> I particularly don't have a mac to test the installer there, so I
> can't do much. So if you know how to fix it would be very nice to
> submit the patch to the bug tracker, because apparently issue4017
> stopped progressing. But if you don't, you could try raising this
> question on python-dev because this is surely annoying.
>
>> (and I know this is not the fault of anyone on this list, I'm just
>> expressing a gripe,
>> I would reallly love to see if the new python on mac fixes my unicode problems).
>>
>> Mick
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Dave Opstad
>> <dave.opstad at monotypeimaging.com> wrote:
>>> Michael O'Donnell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have other tkinter users experienced this? Any easy fixes without
>>>> requiring me to learn how to compile python from scratch?
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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