On Feb 8, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > I've made up a sample page, at http://bill.janssen.org/new- > macpython-page.html. > > This is the kind of thing I'd like to see replace the page at > http://www.python.org/download/download_mac.html.
import statements don't use quotes (import idlelib.idle, not import "idlelib.idle") OS X 10.3 did not ship with Tkinter so IDLE isn't going to work there OS X 10.2 did not ship with a usable version of Python. Python 2.2.0, especially the way they built it, is nearly unusably bug- ridden. It's hardly even worth mentioning that Python shipped with that release of the OS. If they don't use "pythonw" to start Python, they won't be able to talk to GUI stuff except for what happens to be tkinter based. The instructions will have to say to use pythonw. Though IDLE and other tkinter-based stuff will work due to a hack that's in that release of Tk (the one that ships with 10.4, anyway), nothing else will, so you really need to tell people to use pythonw. pythonw is perfectly good at running every Python app, so there's no reason to have them run anything else for any purpose... -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
