I really encourage some updates for IDLE, thanks for your offer. Definitely check out the README in the idle_test folder, and forward any hiccups you encounter to the list so that we can document them for future contributors.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Mark Roseman <m...@markroseman.com> wrote: > On Jul 28, 2015, at 2:07 PM, phil jones <inters...@gmail.com> wrote: >> One question would be is the new Tk you talk about on your site the one >> which is now bundled with the standard Python distro? And is that what >> Tkinter now talks to by default? > > > It’s not so new (Tk 8.5.0 was released in 2007). The standard Python Windows > distribution comes with Tcl/Tk 8.6.1, Mac doesn’t include it (need to install > ActiveTcl separately), and the source tarball doesn’t include it. I don’t > know of any recent Linux distros that don’t package 8.5.x or 8.6.x with their > Python/tkinter packages. Tkinter talks to (I believe) 8.4.x and up. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
