Not well supported on the Mac?

[Just van Rossum]

At 9:14 AM -0700 28-05-2000, Kirby Urner wrote:
>In a thread starting at:
>http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/geometry-research/pefrorsken
>
>Clifford J. Nelson advises me to forsake a Python-based
>approach for another language called Clean, because
>"Python is not supported well for the Mac."
>
>I thought I'd run that by comp.lang.python, as well as
>the Python edu-sig.  Given the importance of Mac technology
>in the schools, limitations re Python on that platform
>are of some relevance to the "Computer Programming for
>Everyone" (CP4E) thread.
>
>Please reply cc: pdx4d at teleport.com -- no need to post a
>reply to the thread mentioned above, as that's a pure
>geometry research list and doesn't need to get bogged
>down in technical discussions re Mac OS, Tkinter, IDLE
>or whatever (I've already posted enough along those
>lines, will maybe summarize feedback I get re Mac).

Python is in general pretty well supported on MacOS. However, Tk(inter) and
therefore IDLE are not so good, due to lack of interest: Jack & I don't use
Tkinter ourselves, and it's up to others to improve the situation...

Just