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

Peter Tomcsanyi tomcsanyi at slovanet.sk
Fri Jun 27 17:52:45 EDT 2014


"Christian Gollwitzer" <auriocus at gmx.de> wrote in message 
news:loh45o$14g$1 at dont-email.me...
> As I said, it doesn't have a special interface, you just load it and 
> that's it. So if you do a tk.eval("package require tkpng"), your 
> Tk.PhotoImage will magically recognize PNG.

I will try it on the Mac, but on Windows this does not work (with python.org 
installation of Python), and I need to have the same environment on both Win 
and Mac (at least).

> On the Mac you can create an APP bundle which contains everything, 
> including extra dependencies.

Thanks for the hint, I may consider it, but maybe it is not applicable to my 
project where the outcome should be in fact a few modules in Python and the 
en-users (college students) should program in Python using IDLE and those 
extra modules. So there is no "Main program" and there will be no 
"application".
Is an APP budle applicable for such a situation?

> Yes this was a long-deferred feature due to its inhomogeneous 
> implementation on the supported platforms. There were some extensions like 
> 10 years ago to do it, but only in 8.6 (2012) it made it into the core Tk.

Thanks for many insights into Tk and your hints.
I will try some of them in next days and maybe later I will come with some 
more questions.

Peter





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