[Python-Dev] installing python 2.7.9 on a Mac (original) (raw)

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Sun Feb 8 00:53:39 CET 2015

In article <201502070539.t175dMcj003003 at fido.openend.se>, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:

webmaster just got mail from a novice who is trying to learn Python in an introductory class. She got a "The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.7) in use may be unstable" message.

I think that the download page should have a link. If you get <The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.7) in use may be unstable> download and install . Any reason we cannot do that?

The truncated "use may be unstable" message above is displayed when you run IDLE. The full message displayed already contains a link to the python.org web page that explains the most up-to-date recommendations for Tcl/Tk use with python.org installers on OS X and includes links to download options. That same link is included in the Welcome message and README text when running the installer for Python. It is also already linked to on the download pages for each release. Until we start shipping our own version of Tcl/Tk for OS X (which has been in the cards), I don't think we can make it much easier.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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