[Tutor] Can't start IDLE 2.6 on Mac

[Alan Gauld]

"Kent Johnson" <kent37 at tds.net> wrote

> Unfortunately there is a problem with the Mac release of Python 2.6
> and Tkinter (which IDLE uses) does not work correctly. The only fix 
> at
> this point is to use 2.5 or to build Python yourself.
> http://bugs.python.org/issue4017
>
> I hope there will be an official release that fixes this soon, it
> seems like a serious problem to me.

Yep, this is why I almost never upgrade to new releases till they
have been out for several months!

But that looks like something that should have been caught in
earlier Release Candidates...

Alan G