I know that Kevin Walzer added a lot of fixes to the native OS X version of Tk that were first released with 8.6.4 and 8.5.18 and I think there have been additional fixes since then but are not yet in an official Tcl/Tk release. The autocomplete popups seem to work fine with the previous OS X release of ActiveTcl 8.5 (8.5.17) and with a MacPorts +quartz build of Tcl/Tk 8.6.3. Taking a quick look at it, it appears that the problem was introduced with the most recently releases of ActiveTcl on OS X, 8.5.18 and 8.6.4. I really like IDLE but it is hard for me to use without this functionality. I am somewhat new to Python, and I often rely on the autocomplete tips to remind me of what I need to do or what methods are available for an object. Is there any known issues or is there a workaround? Do I possibly need to add or change the new Tk path somewhere so that IDLE can find what it needs to popup autocomplete? Is there a way that I can initiate IDLE Autocomplete and Call Tips during the coding session to manually get them to work? I reinstalled them, reloaded all packages, and Autocomplete and call tips still are not popping up. I tried to redo everything by deleting all instances of Python from my drive. This is both in the IDLE Shell and Editor windows. Pressing -Spacebar and then using the down arrow key lets me cycle through the the available functions, but putting a dot after an object has no effect, and if I open parentheses, I get no tips. The delay was set to 2000, so I changed that to 2, but nothing happened. I checked the preferences and it seemed to be turned on. At the time I upgraded Tcl/Tk with ActiveTcl 8.5.18 as was suggested on the Python for MacOSX installation page.Īt this point, Autocomplete and Call Tips stopped popping up. I also added a Python 3.4.3 installation. I recently upgraded to Python 2.7.10 on my MacOSX Yosemite computer. FilesĪuthor: Alessandro Rosa (Alessandro Rosa) Python 3.6, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 2.7Īlessandro Rosa, jmas, markroseman, ned.deily, python-dev, ronaldoussoren, taleinat, terry.reedy, wordtechĬreated on 20:48 by Alessandro Rosa, last changed 14:58 by admin. IDLE Autocomplete and Call Tips Do Not Pop Up on OS X with ActiveTcl 8.5.18