[Pythonmac-SIG] Fix for international characters in Tcl/Tk 8.5

2012-03-04 Thread Ned Deily
Good news for users of IDLE and other Tkinter-based applications! A fix for Cocoa Tcl/Tk 8.5 for improved handling of Mac OS X input methods was recently applied and has now been released in the latest ActiveState Tcl release (8.5.11.1) available here:

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] (re)newbie py2app question

2012-03-04 Thread Ned Deily
In article cajcj7-zt0ip9t7d53joenjhas4gq9_39brwegl-wtmei84n...@mail.gmail.com, Charles Hartman co...@conncoll.edu wrote: I'm just coming back to programming after years, trying to recompile an old program that works but needs updating and expansion. I'm now on OS 10.6.8, Python 2.7.2, with

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] (re)newbie py2app question

2012-03-04 Thread Charles Hartman
Dear Ned (the ever-helpfu-and-clear; I've been following the listserv even over the non-programming years), Thanks. FWIW, I'm not using Xcode at all. I'm aware of the 32/64 change. I thought I had addressed it: my Python 2.7 runs in 64-bit mode (sys.maxsize == 2 ** 64 yields True). My