On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <calwzvp5oymkwxnumhkrowfgouybzn_5t1zsag_fo5m9xyjw...@mail.gmail.com>, > Tal Einat <talei...@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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