Question

Is anyone else working on a Macintosh? I'm using the Python that comes with the system 2.7.2, accessing it through idle. Will this work for the whole course? Thanks!

Answer 1

I think it should work however they are using older version 2.4(you should check yourself). So maybe some functions are deprecated but anyway it's better to use newer version

Answer 2

and it have nothing to do with mac

Answer 3

Thanks for your help. I think I'll try working with the newer version, loading the older looks like it could be a problem on my system.

Answer 4

To add to Tomas.A's response: Just be wary with the syntax of the newer versions as well. I know there's some minor differences with the 2.7 version and the 3.x versions of python. Be sure to check and download the manual with the corresponding editions that you decide on.

Answer 5

jreyles, I made that mistake already! lol

Answer 6

@sueneu Did your IDLE work fine on your Mac? I found that the GUI crashed a lot on OS X (something that seemed kind of widespread given the amount of stuff on Google about it).

Answer 7

I don't have a GUI. I "envoke" Idle from Terminal, and it works a bit like terminal. I'm on OS 10.5.8. How does it look on your machine?

Answer 8

Yeah, that's what it looks like, but it just crashes a lot when I started to run a program. I used to use TextMate to edit the source code and run the interpreter via terminal. Now I am coding in a VM-enviroment on the Mac, Ubuntu distro. It works fine now, even though I got used to write code using a text editor, rather than directly editing a file via IDLE.
I was using a version that was linking to Tcl/Tk, and it was flawed. I do think that evoking via terminal is the better solution, if I recall correctly.