Python, FreeBSD, idle

[dsavitsk]

thanks,

doug




"Hal Weaver" <hweaver at pinetel.com> wrote in message
news:3BEAAC9C.455C7CD8 at pinetel.com...
> Martin Franklin wrote:
> >
> > dsavitsk wrote:
> >
> > > i installed a new FBSD 4.4 system.  i installed Python 2.1.1 from the
> > > packages menu.  i then installed idle (0.5) from the ports collection.
> > > this
> > > inturn installed python 1.5.2.  from a terminal when i type "python"
1.5.2
> > > is started.  is there a trick to linking idle to 2.1.1, and easily
> > > resetting it (2.1.1) as the default?
> > >
> > > or better yet, i notice that idle is up to 0.8 on windows ... has
anyone
> > > done any work to update the FreeBSD port?
> > >
> > > doug
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Doug,
> >
> > idle is in the source distribution under the Tools/idle directory.  Its
> > allways a good idea to have acopy of the python source around, plus it
has
> > lots of extra goodies.....
> >
> > ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/2.1.1/Python-2.1.1.tgz   or
> >
> > http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1.1/Python-2.1.1.tgz
> >
> > Martin
>
> I recently installed Python 2.1 on the FreeBSD 4.3 Stable distribution.
> In order to use idle I had to install py-tkinter from the X11-toolkits
> folder in ports.
>
> Hal
>