Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

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Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 00:47:56 UTC+2, Peter Tomcsanyi a écrit :
> "Ned Deily" <nad at acm.org> wrote in message 
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> news:nad-D2DDCB.14070824062014 at news.gmane.org...
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> > Probably easier, though, is to install Python 3.4 from MacPorts which
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> > does provide its own version of Tcl/Tk 8.6.1, the Cocoa version by
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> > default or optionally an X11 version:
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> >
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> > # after installing the base MacPorts
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> > sudo port selfupdate
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> > sudo port install py34-tkinter +quartz
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> > /opt/local/bin/python3.4
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> >
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> > The easiest option would be a downloadable package that would allow the
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> > default python.org 8.5-linked _tkinter to be overridden with an 8.6
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> > version.  There may be some news on that front in the near future.
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> 
> 
> Many thanks for the quick reply.
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> I will try the MacPorts version, but I am quite Windows-based (I do the Mac 
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> installation for somebody else), so I am not sure how to install all the 
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> other packages that we use (NumPy, MatPlotLib, Pillow and maybe something 
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> else that I do not recall at this moment...). Last time (for the python.org 
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> version of Python) I needed to try out several approached from several sites 
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> to succeed finally...
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> 
> 
> So I will impatiently expect the changes "on that front" and I will hope 
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> that they will come till August 2014.
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> 
> 
> Peter Tomcsanyi

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I can also add, tcl or tk or tkinter (8.6) is on Windows
quite buggy. In fact, simply *unusable*.

jmf