Sophie Chancheong added the comment:
Sorry for not replying,
I followed the solution on the other thread and got it to work! Thank you so
much for your help!!
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Sophie Chancheong added the comment:
i have downloaded and installed activeTcl 8.5.15.0 and that's still what it
says. do you mean a new version of python?
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Ned Deily added the comment:
I was assuming you were using a Python 3.3 from a binary installer downloaded
from python.org. Those Pythons are built to dynamically link with a compatible
Tcl and Tk 8.5 frameworks in /Library/Frameworks, such as the ActiveTcl 8.5
ones, and fall back to the
New submission from Sophie Chancheong:
I'm having trouble with running Idle on my macbook pro os x 10.9.1 . two days
ago it was running with absolutely no problem and now it won't start up. I've
tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and I have updated the Tkinter and Tcl/Tk
etc. It appears in
Ned Deily added the comment:
What happens if you try to start IDLE from a terminal session by typing:
/usr/local/bin/idle3.3
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Sophie Chancheong added the comment:
when i try to start it from terminal i get:
sophiesmac:~ Sophie$ /usr/local/bin/idle3.3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/local/bin/idle3.3, line 5, in module
main()
File
Ned Deily added the comment:
This problem was reported and fixed in Issue18270 which will be in the next set
of Python maintenance releases. As explained there, what is causing this is
that the Python 3.3 tkinter you are using is trying to use the known buggy
system Tk 8.5 shipped with OS X.
