Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-10-02 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
Thanks again for quick and informative reply. "Ned Deily" wrote in message news:nad-40cb03.10344701102...@news.gmane.org... The python.org 3.4.x series of installers will likely never change from linking with Tk 8.5 by default. That would break a number of important third-party Python package

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-10-01 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
"Ned Deily" wrote in message news:nad-d2ddcb.14070824062...@news.gmane.org... The easiest option would be a downloadable package that would allow the default python.org 8.5-linked _tkinter to be overridden with an 8.6 version. There may be some news on that front in the near future. It's Octo

Re: Tcl/Tk alpha channel bug on OSX Mavericks is fixeded, but how/when can I use the fix?

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
now I have enough information and I will try your suggestions when the new Tcl/Tk will be available and ask more questions only if it would not work. Thanks Peter Tomcsanyi -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

typo correction

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
Now I see that I wrote a quite unreadable typo: "unterd". I meant "untared". Peter Tomcsanyi -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tcl/Tk alpha channel bug on OSX Mavericks is fixeded, but how/when can I use the fix?

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
ody else confirm or disconfirm that the above procedure will install the new Tcl/Tk to that place where CPython (that is already installed) will pick it from? Or do I need to reinstall CPython after this? Or...? Thanks Peter Tomcsanyi -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Tcl/Tk alpha channel bug on OSX Mavericks is fixeded, but how/when can I use the fix?

2014-08-03 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
Hello to all, My OSX is 10.9 Mavericks. I use Python 3.4. with ActiveTcl 8.5.15.1. I was struggling with several approaches to using PNG files with alpha channel (partial transparency). Following my question in this newsgroup (see the thread "Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old T

Re: why i can't install ez_setup

2014-06-29 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
"Mark Lawrence" wrote in message news:lonp2t$gk3$1...@ger.gmane.org... I don't consider that particularly sound adice. easy_install is hardly an "obscure Python installation tool". If you get pip it will look after the dependancies for you. The site you're referenced is unofficial. FWIW

Re: why i can't install ez_setup

2014-06-28 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
I cannot answer the original question. But: do you need ez_setup at all? From your text it's clear that you are using Python on Windows. Therefore I suggest you to forget about the obscure Python installation tools and look at: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ Find there the Python

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-27 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
"Christian Gollwitzer" wrote in message news:loh45o$14g$1...@dont-email.me... As I said, it doesn't have a special interface, you just load it and that's it. So if you do a tk.eval("package require tkpng"), your Tk.PhotoImage will magically recognize PNG. I will try it on the Mac, but on Wi

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-26 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
"Christian Gollwitzer" wrote in message news:lofciv$nq6$1...@dont-email.me... For PNG image support you can load either the Img package which gives support for a large variety of images, or the smaller tkpng package. My first Google search for "tkpng" "python" gave no usable results. So I am n

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-25 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
"Christian Gollwitzer" wrote in message news:lodruv$k45$1...@dont-email.me... Hi Peter, may I ask which features of 8.6 you need in particular? Hi Christian, I need two of them: - Angled text - PNG image support with alpha channel (even if it seems a bit limited, particularly I still did not

Re: Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-24 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
...). Last time (for the python.org version of Python) I needed to try out several approached from several sites to succeed finally... So I will impatiently expect the changes "on that front" and I will hope that they will come till August 2014. Peter Tomcsanyi -- https://mai

Python 3.4.1 installer on Mac links Python to old Tcl/Tk

2014-06-24 Thread Peter Tomcsanyi
is kind of question... can anyone suggest a better place so that the question has a chance to be read by the person who is actually creating the installation packages? Should I try to send this as a bug to bugs.python.org? Thanks, Peter Tomcsanyi -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list