[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening with 3.5 on Mac Mohave.

2020-09-27 Thread GJL
GJL added the comment: Thank you both. Decided to just download 3.8.6 instead of dealing with 3.5 IDLE shell works. Appreciate the help. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening with 3.5 on Mac Mohave.

2020-09-25 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: To try to run IDLE with 8.5, one should install tcl/tk 8.5.18 as described at https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/. This requires making a free Active State account and is not at all guaranteed to be sufficient. Today I installed 3.8.6 and 3.9.0rc2

[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening

2020-09-25 Thread GJL
GJL added the comment: Thank you very much! I will uninstall soon and download 3.8.6 -- if anything comes up then I'll let you know fosho -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening

2020-09-25 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Ah! I've never looked at the book or the MIT course materials. I see that an update to the book is planned for next year and that 3.5 would have been current when the current edition of the book was published. Generally, changes between recent Python feature

[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening

2020-09-25 Thread GJL
GJL added the comment: Hey Ned, I'm using 3.5 in accordance with what "Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python|With Application to Understanding Data" Should I just uninstall 3.5 and opt to use 3.8.6? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening

2020-09-25 Thread Ned Deily
Change by Ned Deily : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy components: +IDLE nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening

2020-09-25 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Python 3.5 is very old; the last macOS installers from python.org for it were released over 3 years ago and the 3.5 release series has reached end-of-life. Is there a reason you can't use a current version of Python? 3.8.6 is now current. Since Python 3.5.4,

[issue41863] IDLE shell not opening

2020-09-25 Thread Gagandeep Longia
New submission from Gagandeep Longia : I downloaded Python 3.5 and tried opening the IDLE shell. Each time I do it, it says "The application "IDLE" can't be opened." Any help? My Mac OS X is 10.14.6 Mojave -- components: macOS messages: 377496 nosy: glongia18, ned.deily,