On 03/06/16 17:18, Christian Carbone via Tutor wrote: > As the subject line indicates, I really need help uninstalling python on my > mac..
You almost certainly don;t want to to do that! Your Mac will stop working properly, it uses Python. That's why its installed by default on Macs. > The reason i (think i) need to uninstall python is that when i open > IDLE i get this warning: > "WARNING: The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.9) in use may be unstable. OK, So you have IDLE which is not ion a Mac by default so maybe you installed an extra version of Python and you want to uninstall that? Thats a very different thing that uninstalling Python entirely. But the warning only says the version of Tcl/Tk *may* be unstable. Does IDLE in fact work? If it doesn't can you replace the Tcl/Tk libraries rather than Python? > Visit http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ for current information.". Did you read that page? Did you do what it suggested and install an ActiveState version of Tcl/Tk for MAC? Which versions of MacOS and Python are you using? > I've heard i need to install a system appropriate tcl/tk (which i > believe i have done) before reinstalling python, What makes you believe it? Which version did you install? Where did you get it? > but seeing as i cannot uninstall python I do not see any way > to resolve this issue. Once we understand which version of Python you installed we can start to consider whether/how you need to uninstall it. What you should not do is try to uninstall the system version of Python used by MacOS. > Python.org doesn't seem to have any information that addresses > this problem, so I have come here in hopes of some guidance. Did you read this page: https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html It doesn't explicitly tell you how to uninstall it, but it does tell you what is installed, and where... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
