i've built a Python 2.5a0 interpreter on my iBook using gcc 3.3-1666 using the tarball from last nite...
$ uname -a Darwin myMac.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc $ $ python Python 2.5a0 (trunk, Mar 28 2006, 02:53:21) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ^D it has a particular symptom with Tkinter where if i run the interactive interpreter, "import Tkinter", etc., things work great... i can bring up and create Tk objects which work as expected using XDarwin 1.3.0/XFree86 4.4.0, BUT when i try to run anything as a script, even the 1-liner: "import _tkinter", it bombs out with a Bus Error. here is the output in GDB: $ gdb /usr/local/bin/python2.5 GNU gdb 5.3-20030128 (Apple version gdb-330.1) (Fri Jul 16 21:42:28 GMT 2004) Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc-apple-darwin". Reading symbols for shared libraries .. done (gdb) set args tk-test.py (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/local/bin/python2.5 tk-test.py Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Reading symbols for shared libraries . done Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. 0x901c5118 in __CFStringCreateImmutableFunnel3 () (gdb) has anyone else seen this error before? the script (obviously) works using earlier versions of Python. i have Tcl/Tk 8.4 on my system and have T{CL,K}_LIBRARY pointed at the right place(s) when i built my 2.5 interpreter. thanks, -wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 http://corepython.com wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca http://cyberwebconsulting.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list