Re: [Visualpython-users] Mac IDLE fix

[James M. <mu...@pi...>]

Bruce,
	I have both the MacPython and Enthought versions of 2.5.2 on my  
macbook pro.  While the IDLE in MacPython is broken as you say, the  
one shipped with the Enthought distribution appears to be fine.  Now  
they both claim to be IDLE 1.2.2, and this seemed confusing, so I  
looked into the Enthought distribution a little more.  I had previous  
versions of it so I checked IDLE in each of them

EPD 2.5.2001 released July 2008 - IDLE missing configure menu
EPD with Py2.5 4.0.30002 released Oct 2008 - IDLE missing configure menu
EPD Py2.5 4.1.30101 released Dec 2008 - IDLE has configure menu

I see that you were complaining about idle on the idle-dev mailing  
list back in November, but I don't see any note to indicate a fix  
going in, so I am still confused as to why the Enthought IDLE seems to  
work, but the MacPython one is still broken.

I also haven't seen any mouse problems, but that is probably because I  
am just not trying the right thing to trigger them.

-Jim


On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> This has been added to the Visual 5 Mac download page:
>
> The version of IDLE that comes with Python on the Mac is defective. In
> particular, it does not offer a menu option to configure IDLE. If you
> would like to have a larger font size, to have your file automatically
> saved when you run (if you changed it), the ability to be able to  
> make a
> change and re-run your program without being interrupted by being  
> asked
> whether to save the file, and to have the Visual help available on the
> IDLE help menu, download the file idlerc.zip and unzip it in your home
> folder (e.g. /Users/tom). Depending on your Finder settings, you may  
> not
> see the resulting folder ".idlerc", but it will be used by IDLE (in a
> Terminal you can see it if you execute "ls -a").
>
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