Configuring Python for Tk on Mac (continued)

[Martyn Quick]

From: Alex Martelli ([email protected])

No idea about any 10.2, sorry, but on 10.3 that's not the problem: Tk
support is there alright, it's Tcl/Tk which _isn't_. Get MacPython, its
PackageManager will explain where to get Tcl/Tk Aqua from, as a prereq
for Tkinter and IDLE!

Ok, I've installed MacPython. It doesn't seem to work right though...
for example, if I try to run the 00-HELLO-WORLD.py example then it
crashes and tells me the IDE has unexpectedly crashed.

I can't really see how to run things either. (I'm used to just typing
"python" in a terminal on Unix but that seems to just run the version
that comes pre-installed.)

Sorry for not knowing much about Macs and being a bit clueless.

Martyn

 

[Kevin Walzer]

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Martyn Quick wrote:
| From: Alex Martelli ([email protected])
|
|>No idea about any 10.2, sorry, but on 10.3 that's not the problem: Tk
|>support is there alright, it's Tcl/Tk which _isn't_. Get MacPython, its
|>PackageManager will explain where to get Tcl/Tk Aqua from, as a prereq
|>for Tkinter and IDLE!
|
|
| Ok, I've installed MacPython. It doesn't seem to work right though...
| for example, if I try to run the 00-HELLO-WORLD.py example then it
| crashes and tells me the IDE has unexpectedly crashed.
|
| I can't really see how to run things either. (I'm used to just typing
| "python" in a terminal on Unix but that seems to just run the version
| that comes pre-installed.)
|
| Sorry for not knowing much about Macs and being a bit clueless.
|
| Martyn

You need to install Tk Aqua at this site:

http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net

You then need to install the tkinter bindings using Package Manager,
which comes as part of the Macpython distribution.

IDLE then should run fine.

Also, you can't run Python gui programs by typing "python" in the
console on the Mac: either double-click the script, or use "pythonw" as
the launching program in the terminal.


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