[issue31974] Cursor misbahavior with Tkinter 3.6.1/tk 8.5 Text on Mac Sierra

Ned Deily added the comment: Update: for Python 3.6.5 and 3.7.0, there are new python.org 10.9+ installer variants that come with a built-in Tcl/Tk 8.6.8. They are currently both available in testing pre-releases (3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0b2):

[issue31974] Cursor misbahavior with Tkinter 3.6.1/tk 8.5 Text on Mac Sierra

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: 3.7.0a2 is out now. There will be an .0a3, .0a4, then .0b1 in January. Ned is saying that at least the last of these will be compiled to work with 8.6. Once that occurs, I would switch as most of the remaining changes before the .0

[issue31974] Cursor misbahavior with Tkinter 3.6.1/tk 8.5 Text on Mac Sierra

Irv Kalb added the comment: Hi Ned, Thanks for your message. But I want to make sure I understand what you are saying here. I am using absolutely vanilla Python 3.6 from python.org , but have upgraded to version 8.5.18 if ActiveState tk. I was

[issue31974] Cursor misbahavior with Tkinter 3.6.1/tk 8.5 Text on Mac Sierra

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the very helpful video, Irv. It is definitely not a Python issue as I am able to reproduce the positioning problem using the current ActiveState Community Edition 8.6.6 and 8.5.18 macOS Wish shell text widget demos (as long as I use

[issue31974] Cursor misbahavior with Tkinter 3.6.1/tk 8.5 Text on Mac Sierra

New submission from Terry J. Reedy : MacOS Sierra 10.12.6, Python 3.6.1, tk 8.5.15 or .18. Consider this code with arbitrary compound statements and therefore indented lines. for i in range(10): if i%2: print(f(i)) Irv Kalb on idle-dev thread 'Bug in cursor