In article <9d367487-4846-4caa-85e7-08ac570b4...@googlegroups.com>, Ash Courchene <ash.courch...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I've actually had this problem for awhile, and I cant seem to get anything > to work. I've followed all the steps & procedures that my google searches > have provide me, but I can't seem to get the Tkinter module or the Python > IDLE IDE to work. > > For instance, if I click IDLE on my mac, it'll open up for a quick sec & > produce an error. > Or if I go into the Python interpreter, I import Tkinter, call Tk() > Then it says: CGColor 1 components Abort Trap: 6, then get an error. I'll > post this crash report below. > > My system is a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. > I'm running 2.7.3 Python > I've installed the recommended version of ActiveState TCL/TK
Most likely you have a non-default preference set (color or font) that is causing the problem. IDLE and especially Tk on OS X has been known to be vulnerable to this. To try working around it, open a terminal session and rename the IDLE settings directory: cd $HOME mv .idlerc idlerc-disabled Then try relaunching IDLE. If that solves it, it would be nice if you could open an issue on the Python bug tracker (http://bugs.python.org) and attach to it the contents of the config files in the old idlerc-disabled directory. There has been some fixes to IDLE since 2.7.3 to make it more resilient; those will be in 2.7.4 which should be coming along in the near future. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
