Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-07 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 4 Mar, 2010, at 18:23, Tom Loredo wrote: > > Ned wrote: > >> The easy way to avoid nearly all the hassle, at the moment, is to stick >> with 32-bit and build Python on 10.5 - not a good long term solution. > > I hesitate to bring this up for 2.6.5 because I know you guys are > swamped, but

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-06 Thread Christopher Barker
Tom Loredo wrote: Chris wrote: wxPython is 32 bit, you need to use it with 32 bit Python. * At the very top of the wxpython page: (8-Oct-2008) A set of wxPython binaries for Python 2.6 on the Mac and Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) are now available. I guess that should read: "A set of wxPytho

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Loredo
Chris wrote: > > In the past I've also used wxpython for matplotlib, but the wxpython > > situation with Snow Leopard seems even more confusing than the tkinter > > situation! > > How so? Difficult, maybe, but it shouldn't be confusing: > > wxPython is 32 bit, you need to use it with 32 bit Pyt

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-04 Thread Tom Loredo
Ned wrote: > The easy way to avoid nearly all the hassle, at the moment, is to stick > with 32-bit and build Python on 10.5 - not a good long term solution. I hesitate to bring this up for 2.6.5 because I know you guys are swamped, but... Can you clarify how those of us on Snow Leopard can bu

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-04 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Mar, 2010, at 11:33, Ned Deily wrote: > In article <1267598651.4b8e053b51...@astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu>, > Tom Loredo wrote: >> Sorting out the Tcl/Tk situation with Python-2.6.4 is coming >> up quickly on my MacPy to-do list (I'm just setting up a new machine, >> as you may have guessed)

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher Barker
Tom Loredo wrote: In the past I've also used wxpython for matplotlib, but the wxpython situation with Snow Leopard seems even more confusing than the tkinter situation! How so? Difficult, maybe, but it shouldn't be confusing: wxPython is 32 bit, you need to use it with 32 bit Python. It's 32

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 3/3/10 5:33 AM, Ned Deily wrote: The main problem before was 64-bit Tk availability. IIRC, the only real game in town for that was the Apple-supplied 8.5 in 10.6 which apparently pulled in from the TkAqua Cocoa/64-bit port project (which now may be a part of 8.6?). Kevin Walzer was trying

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-03 Thread Ned Deily
In article <1267598651.4b8e053b51...@astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu>, Tom Loredo wrote: > Sorting out the Tcl/Tk situation with Python-2.6.4 is coming > up quickly on my MacPy to-do list (I'm just setting up a new machine, > as you may have guessed). I've experienced the weirdness > associated with

[Pythonmac-SIG] Recommended Tcl/Tk with Py-2.6.x? (was: Test failure...)

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Loredo
Ned- Thanks for the quick attention and detective work about the tcl-related bug in 2.6.5. I wouldn't have known how to track it down! Regarding your comment: > I haven't been building and testing as much with 10.6's > built-in Tk 8.5 because it has been so problematic with IDLE. I did > v