In article <4e741358-ce12-40ac-97b8-3bbbf2d6d...@googlegroups.com>, "Mark H. Harris" <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > The main problem you will see with OSX (if you're not careful) is that IDLE > will be unstable. To be fair about it, its not IDLE's problem, per se. Its > about tcl/tk tkinter. DO NOT use the built-in tcl that comes from Apple, nor > the one that comes through the Apple store! Actually go to the Active TCL > site and download the version related to your system (yes there is a > different one depending on 10.5 10.6 etc).
The gory details are here: http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ TL;DR You'll need to install newer versions of Python (like those download from python.org) that link with third-party builds of Tcl/Tk rather than use the Pythons and Tcl/Tk that Apple ships with OS X 10.6+. > [...] > If you want to use terminals on OSX you'll want to install Quartz and run > the terminal on the emulated X environment. It works better for python IMHO. > The built-in terminal for OSX need serious configuring (which is possible) > because its color is bad, and its tiny by default, with a crummy font. All of > that can be changed, but it just works better to use XQuartz. That certainly is a matter of preference. There are plenty of drawbacks to using X11-based apps on OS X. I wouldn't advise new users to OS X to go that route unless they were really set on using X11 entirely and, in that case, why use OS X at all? If you don't like Apple's built-in Terminal.app, another option is to use iTerm 2, an open source native alternative that has many more features. http://www.iterm2.com/ It's also available through MacPorts. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list