On Friday, December 15, 2017 at 12:44:14 PM UTC, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 12/15/2017 6:37 AM, ceiussandi...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, I've been trying to get python 3.4.3 (needed for programming course) on > > my mac, running High Sierra. > > I've installed python and activetcl 8.5.18 as per instructions. When I > > start IDLE from finder it flashes in the dock and disappears. When I start > > it from terminal, I get the following response: > > ** IDLE can't import Tkinter. > > Your Python may not be configured for Tk. ** > > I've googled for the answer but I can't find anything, the closest I got > > was to this https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/2665 but I'm > > not sure if it is this issue or not. > > Can someone help me get started using python? > > I don't have a Mac, but I know that > https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ > has some fairly exacting instructions at the bottom on how to get Python > to find the newly installed tcl/tk. You should probably specify rather > exactly what you did. There are multiple issues on bugs.python.org and > questions on stackoverflow. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy
Thanks Terry, I posted on here because I've struggled after trawling through Google and following the instructions on that page. I have installed: ActiveTcl 8.5.18.0 then I installed Python 3.4.3 I've found the issue by continuing to trawl a bit more, the course download for python (a few years old) pointed to the python install for 10.5 onwards not 10.6 onwards. Installed the right python and working. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
