[Idle-dev] Configuring IDLE for Python 3.2.2 on Ubuntu

[Tal Einat]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

> In article
> <CALWZvp5oyMKwXnumHKrOwfgoUYbzn_5t1ZsaG_Fo5m9XYjw9wg at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Tal Einat <taleinat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you really need Python 3.2? You can install version 3.1 of Python
> using
> > Aptitude (manually with the command line or using Synaptic), and you
> should
> > get a working version of IDLE with Python 3.1.
> >
> > If you really need Python 3.2, on its download page[1] there is a link to
> a
> > page regarding Tkinter[2] which should contain the required information
> on
> > which version of Tcl/Tk you need to install, and perhaps how.
>
> If you are using Python 3, you should use Python 3.2.x if at all
> possible, not any earlier versions of Python 3.  There are just too many
> bug fixes and performance improvements along with the new features.
> It's not like the difference between, say, Python 2.6 and 2.7.  And
> maintenance on Python 3.1 by the Python-dev team has ceased; only any
> urgent security fix that might arise would be issued for 3.1.x.
>

That's true.

Perhaps whoever is in charge of the Ubuntu package management system should
be encouraged to update to Python 3.2 instead of 3.1? Installing IDLE
otherwise is quite complicated -- nobody here on IDLE-dev has explained how
to do it in the few days since the question was posted!

- Tal Einat
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