Is the questioner actually referring to / confused by the Metal announcement?
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 31, 2017, at 13:59, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > >> On Dec 31, 2017, at 11:09, James Clayson wrote: >> >> I'm a novice using MacPorts but I have used it to successfully install >> Python on my MacBookPro since late 2014 and on many different Macs used by >> my students. >> >> I would use the command like: sudo port install py36-tkinter +quartz >> >> and everything was fine. I recently upgraded to MacOS 10.13.2, updated >> MacPorts for High Sierra and got the most recent Xcode. My MacPorts >> installed python opens but crashes whenever I attempt to open or save a .py >> file. I can install python using X11 but miss the quartz interface. > > Can you send us the crash log? > >> I recently read on the internet that quartz in no longer part of the newest >> Mac systems > > Where did you read that? URL?