> On Nov 7, 2017, at 11:27 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 11/7/2017 6:31 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: >> On 11/6/17 11:54 PM, Irv Kalb wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have installed the 8.5.18 version of tk/tcl that you suggested. But I >>> am still seeing this problem on my Mac. >>> >>> Rather than trying to explain the details and my configuration, I have made >>> a 3 minute video so you can see exactly what I am seeing. You can find >>> that here: >>> >>> https://youtu.be/Us8px0BY5rg > > Crystal clear. > >>> >>> In answer to your question, I would guess that I am the same IrvKalb that >>> is registered, but it would take me hours to figure out how to register a >>> bug (since I have never done it before). So if you believe that this is a >>> real bug, I would greatly appreciate it if you could register it for me. >>> >>> Again, please let me know if there is any more information I can give you. >>> >>> (I forgot to test this out on my Windows computer at my school today - I'll >>> try to remember to do it tomorrow. I remember seeing this last semester on >>> the Windows system, but we were running Python 2 back then.) >>> >>> Irv >>> >> FWIW, I don't see this issue with IDLE built against Python 3.6.1 and Tcl/Tk >> 8.6.7. 8.5.18 is a very old release of Tk and we are not backporting >> bugfixes to it. You may solve your problem by upgrading your installation of >> Tk. > > I don't know why the PSF Mac Python is still compiled against 8.5 instead of > 8.6. I will open a tkinter issue, even though it will likely be closed as > 3rd party, both to document the problem and as more evidence of the need to > change to compiling against 8.6. > > PS: About a year ago, someone (you?) said we might see a tk that supports the > unicode beyond the BMP in 2017. Is there any development in that direction. > I think that this is the tk improvement that IDLE most needs. > >
Thank you Kevin and Terry for looking at this. But now I'm very confused about what to do. Terry said that I should install Tcl/TK 8.5.18, which I did, but I still see the error. He said that the current version of IDLE will not work with 8.6. However, Kevin said that 8.5.18 is a very old release, and I may solve my problem by upgrading my installation of Tk. So, should I attempt to install a newer version of Tk (8.6.?) - or am I just stuck with this odd insertion cursor behavior for now? (I am using an absolutely vanilla download of Mac Python 3.6 from Python.org <http://python.org/>) Irv PS: By the way, I did test out the same thing on my Windows 10 system at my school, and the issue does not happen there. I realized that last semester, this same classroom had a Mac, and I saw this problem there (with Python 2.7).
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