> I have attached a screen grab of the alert message which now appears when I > try to run IDLE from OSX Python. The message box is itself frozen, and the OK > button unresponsive. Eventually a shape the size of the IDLE window appears > on screen as a blank white square, and I have to force quit, to quit the > python launcher. > In addition, this is the console message that appears in Terminal: > Apples-iMac-4:scripts apple$ IDLE > 11:20:00 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/idlelib/run.py", > line 7, in <module> > import threading > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py", > line 14, in <module> > from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep > ImportError: cannot import name sleep > > The console message has identical content to a message that I am also > currently investigating, and which had caused me to try to launch IDLE at > this time. This problem relates to running Python scripts that have import > commands to a particular 3rd party library, which were working, but now no > longer work without generating the same console message. Other scripts seem > to run OK on both OSX Python and the macported Python. I would say the > problem is with the 3rd party library save that IDLE is not related to that > library. > > This may or may not be a macport issue, but as you say, having both macported > and OSX versions of Python may be causing a conflict. Please explain how I > may follow your initial advise on removing manually-installed software it may > help. Install py27-tkinter and IDLE installed by MacPorts python will work. (At least it opens for me when I did only that. I didn’t actually do anything in IDLE.)
Lenore
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