help! - Python, Tkinter and IDLE

[Lenore Horner]

> I have attached a screen grab of the alert message which now appears when I try to run IDLE from OSX Python. The message box is itself frozen, and the OK button unresponsive. Eventually a shape the size of the IDLE window appears on screen as a blank white square, and I have to force quit, to quit the python launcher. 
> In addition, this is the console message that appears in Terminal:
> Apples-iMac-4:scripts apple$ IDLE
> 11:20:00
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/idlelib/run.py", line 7, in <module>
>     import threading
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 14, in <module>
>     from time import time as _time, sleep as _sleep
> ImportError: cannot import name sleep
> 
> The console message has identical content to a message that I am also currently investigating, and which had caused me to try to launch IDLE at this time. This problem relates to running Python scripts that have import commands to a particular 3rd party library, which were working, but now no longer work without generating the same console message. Other scripts seem to run OK on both OSX Python and the macported Python. I would say the problem is with the 3rd party library save that IDLE is not related to that library.
> 
> This may or may not be a macport issue, but as you say, having both macported and OSX versions of Python may be causing a conflict. Please explain how I may follow your initial advise on removing manually-installed software it may help.
Install py27-tkinter and IDLE installed by MacPorts python will work.  (At least it opens for me when I did only that.  I didn’t actually do anything in IDLE.)

Lenore

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