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Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work...

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work...
Date 2011-11-10 18:45 -0500
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On 11/10/2011 5:40 PM, CAMERON ALLEY wrote:

> Okay, so the problem. I tried to install Python 2.7 about two months
> ago on both my laptop and iMac. Both are running up-to-date Mac OS X
> 10.6, with 64-bit processors and around 2.4GHz speed and 2G of RAM. My
> laptop installed python 2.7 and ran it perfectly, first time. My
> desktop... not so much.

You issue has nothing to do with IDLE and perhaps all to do with the 
buggy tcl/tk that comes with OSX 10.6. The Python module tkinter is the 
tk interface for Python (hence the name). The turtle module and IDLE 
both use tkinter. Searching all tracker issues (open and closed) for 
'max tcl' turns up (among several others)
http://bugs.python.org/issue10907
http://bugs.python.org/issue10969
http://bugs.python.org/issue12269
The latter 2, especially, might tell you what to do.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... CAMERON ALLEY <cra5370@g.rit.edu> - 2011-11-10 14:40 -0800
  Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-11-10 23:11 +0000
    Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... CAMERON ALLEY <cra5370@g.rit.edu> - 2011-11-10 15:27 -0800
  Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-11-10 18:45 -0500
  Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2011-11-10 16:27 -0800
    Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... CAMERON ALLEY <cra5370@g.rit.edu> - 2011-11-10 20:25 -0800
      Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... CAMERON ALLEY <cra5370@g.rit.edu> - 2011-11-10 20:38 -0800
        Re: No matter what I do, IDLE will not work... Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2011-11-10 22:51 -0800

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