Help with Tkinter and MacPython

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <3B148D6D.37789E0E at spiritone.com>,
 Josh English <english at spiritone.com> wrote:

>"Russell E. Owen" wrote:
>
>> Also, there are at least two standard gotchas, both well documented in
>> the ReadMe:
>> - All versions of MacPython require you to drop a script on
>> PythonInterpreter. Never try to run Tk scripts in Python IDE!
>
>I haven't found that in the Read Me files, but it works. Thanks.

I'm very glad that did it! I looked around and you're right, the info 
isn't in the Readme. I found it in the "Relnotes" file in the "Relnotes" 
folder. I have appended the "known limitations" section from that file 
(which also contains other useful information). While I'm at it, a big 
"thank you" to Jack Jansen and the others who make MacPython happen.

-- Russell

Known problems
--------------

This list is probably incomplete, more problems may be listed on the 
MacPython homepage,
http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html.

- Tkinter does not work under Carbon.
- The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under 
PythonInterpreter.
- Tkinter file events do not work, unless you have opened the file 
through Tcl (but then
  you cannot access it from Python).
- Aliases may not work in sys.path entries.
- Under Carbon on OS9 only you may occasionally see a spurious 
KeyboardInterrupt. I have absolutely
  no clue as to what is causing this.
- PythonInterpreter used interactively will eat a lot of processor 
cycles. You should use
  PythonIDE for interactive work and PythonInterpreter for scripts only. 
This is especially
  true under OSX.