python-2.6

[Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka]

There seems to be a bug with idle on Mac OS X.

http://bugs.python.org/issue4017

It has to do something with reinstalling the TCL and TK.

 If you want to see detailed error messages, open a terminal and type
idle at the command prompt.

Cheers,

Raj

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:26 PM,  <luca.ciciriello at email.it> wrote:
> Strange things happens.
>
> I've download the installer package for Mac of Python 2.6 and I've launched
> it. When finished, I've launched from a terminal the command "Python" and
> all worked fine The response was "Python 2.6 etc...". Now I've launched
> IDLE. Nothing. IDLE icon blinked a couple of time in dock and then
> disapeared. I've disabled any firewall in the system but the behavior was
> the same. I've repared the privilege and restarted the system.
> A disaster. The system was dramatically slow and IDLE was still not
> starting. Then I've reinstalled Python 2.5.2 an all was working fine again
> (included IDLE and System speed).
>
> What is wrong with Python 2.6 on my system (MacOS X 10.4.11 PPC)?
>
>
>        --------- Original Message --------
>        Da: Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
>        To: python-list at python.org <python-list at python.org>
>        Oggetto: Re: python-2.6
>        Data: 03/10/08 03:41
>
>        >
>>
>>
>> luca.ciciriello at email.it wrote:
>> > Hi all.
>> >
>> > I've installed on may MacOS X 10.4.11 (PPC) Python-2.5.2, numpy and
> scipy.
>> > Now I'm interested to insall Python-2.6. My question is: What will
> happen to
>> > may scientific modules if now I jump fro 2.5.2 to 2.6? I've to reinstall
>> > numpy and scipy?
>>
>> Keep your 2.5.2 install intact until you have everything you need and
>> want in a 2.6 install.
>>
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Rajanikanth