Re: [Visualpython-users] Mac IDLE fix

[Joe H. <hea...@gm...>]

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> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:26:09 -0500
> From: Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>
> Subject: [Visualpython-users] Mac IDLE fix
> To: vpusers <vis...@li...>
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> 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").


Seems to work fine for me. I've installed the new Mac VPython on all 12 of
my MacBooks at work and we'll start using it tomorrow. Will applying
MacPython 2.5.x updates break Visual? For some time, I was under the
impression that my VPython installed via Fink was using Python 2.6 but I was
mistaken. Now I've no idea what package caused Python 2.6 to be installed
under Fink, but I can't remove it because something else depends on it.
Funny...

Joe