python 2.7, import wx says "wrong architecture"

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 02:59, Dave Curtis wrote:

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> On Mar 22, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Dave Curtis wrote:
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>> On Mar 22, 2012, at 12:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Mar 22, 2012, at 02:24, Dave Curtis wrote:
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>>>> david-curtiss-macbook:capek2 dave$ arch -i386 idle2.7
>>>> ** IDLE can't import Tkinter.  Your Python may not be configured for Tk. **
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>>>> which is very annoying.  Because idle2.7 starts up perfectly fine in 64 bits.
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>>> Have you installed the py27-tkinter port with the +universal variant as well?
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>> That idea occurred to me about 3 minutes ago, so it is cooking away at rebuilding dependencies +universal.
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> And.... not quite.
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> arch -i386 idle2.7 
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> now works!  But it appears to start a 64 bit version of Python in a 32 bit IDE, because when I
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> import wx
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> it gives me the "wrong arch" message.
> How do I force 32 bit idle2.7 to start 32 bit python? 
> Or for that matter, shouldn't I be able to get 64 bit idle to start 32 bit python? That probably makes a little more sense.

I'm afraid I don't even know what "idle" is, nor much about python at all.