I am a beginner and am using PyCharm as my editor. It’s great and free. It also provides some very nice courses that work within the editor. Google PyCharm.edu
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 29, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: > >> On 12/29/2017 11:28 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: >>> On 29/12/17 16:43, Jay Kelman wrote: >>> I downloaded Python and when I look at IDLE it tells me to update TCL. >> >> Are you using a Mac by any chance? I seem to recall this used to >> be a common issue with MacOS. If you google for "IDLE MacOS >> Tcl" you should find several links telling you how to fix it. >> >> If not a Mac then I'm stumped it should all work fine. >> > > This Mac issue is definitely still current - yes there is information to > solve it, but people are having constant problems getting it to not > complain, we get an orgoing stream of these over at the python.org > webmaster alias, which isn't even supposed to be for Python problems. It > seems what is on the web about this isn't simple enough, complete > enough, or whatever. > > > Just a note: it's not certain that you will ever hit the problems, and > if you do, you certainly don't have to use IDLE to be happy and > productive with Python. IDLE != Python. There are many many other > editors/development environments that can be used. A bunch are listed > on the Python wiki: > > https://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor