Okay, I'll raise the priority on trying to get VPython to run on Python 3.2.
Bruce On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <AANLkTinUg1sPNhH7L39g9qwkmp=Uux_QDtrK119tK=k...@mail.gmail.com>, > Bruce Sherwood <bruce_sherw...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > >> You may or not be aware that there is a "VIDLE" distributed with >> VPython (vpython.org) that incorporates many improvements made by >> David Scherer and Guilhermo Polo (during a recent Google Summer of >> Code) that are supposed to be moved into the standard Python >> distribution. In fact, Guido asked that despite the freeze, these >> changes be put into Python 2.7. But I don't know when this might >> happen. > > It will start happening sometime (soon, I hope) after Python 3.2 goes > out the door, which should happen in about two weeks. Unfortunately, > there has been a lot of last-minute firefighting in Python 3.2 IDLE, > particularly on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the new Cocoa-based version of > Tk 8.5. It would be great to have more testing there of either the > traditional 32-bit OS X installer (from python.org) which uses either > the Apple-suppliedTk 8.4 (included with OS X 10.4 through 10.6) or > ActiveState Tk 8.4. Or, on 10.6 only, the 64-bit/32-bit installer which > requires the latest ActiveState Tk 8.5. There is preliminary, > pre-release info here: > > http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2/ > http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ > > Once 3.2 is released, I plan to work on getting the VIDLE enhancements > into the next maintenance releases, 2.7.2 and 3.2.1. > > -- > Ned Deily, > n...@acm.org > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
