new to mac OS10

[Thomas Nelson]

The main thing I would like is to be able to use tkinter with python on 
my mac.  will the command-line-style source allow this?  Does it come 
with IDLE?  How is the fink version different from the source i can 
download at python.org?  Here's the result of the requested commands on 
my Terminal.  It would appear that these links are broken, as 
Python.framework no longer exists.  Sorry to be so much trouble,

THN



Welcome to Darwin!
~ $ ls -all /usr/bin/python*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    9 20 Jun  2004 /usr/bin/python -> python2.3
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   72 20 Jun  2004 /usr/bin/python2.3 -> 
../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/python
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 20 Jun  2004 /usr/bin/pythonw -> pythonw2.3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  122  8 Jun  2003 /usr/bin/pythonw2.3
~ $ ls /System/Library/Framework/Python.framework
ls: /System/Library/Framework/Python.framework: No such file or directory
~ $ cd /System/Library/Framework/Python.framwork
-bash: cd: /System/Library/Framework/Python.framwork: No such file or 
directory
~ $


Jorl Shefner wrote:
> If you simply want the latest python to run from the command line, then
> compiling the source code works fine on the mac.  I just installed
> 2.4.1 on Os 10.3.8 last week without any problems.
> 
> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/Python-2.4.1.tgz
> 
> "./configure"
> "make"
> "make install"
> 
> J.S.
>