[Tutor] Good reasons for 1.5.2 compatibility?

Magnus Lycka magnus@thinkware.se
Sun Jan 5 19:09:01 2003


At 18:45 2003-01-03 +0300, Roman Suzi wrote:
>Also I know that 2.x has difficulties with non-latin1 texts in IDLE:
>so it is not possible to use Tkinter (thus build GUIs) with standard 2.x
>versions of Python.

I can't quite follow the conclusion you are making here.

Why exactly isn't it possible to use Tkinter with standard 2.x
versions of Python?

Surely Tkinter does not depend on IDLE.

Also, it might be time to consider using Unicode for implementing
non-ASCII things in Python...


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