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Python 3.8 (latest release)problem
by Don Bowers May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

iMac (2009) OS X El Capitan v 10.11.6 Sirs, A few days ago I downloaded and installed the latest release of python 3.8.3. All seemed normal at first until I tried to Cut & Paste parts of a script I was working on in the IDLE environment. The following are screen shots that are generally self explanatory; As can be seen, the cut and copy are greyed out and inoperative and I don’t remember the "set" and "clear" Breakpoints, at the bottom. It is as if nothing had been selected. Such a situation makes the editor practically unusable so I quit out of the IDLE and Python. To see if it had also effected the normal Finder environment I opened a text editor file and got the following: Indicating the OS was also effected and I don’t have BBEdit ( top line of bottom panel) installed and it, needs sorting but (top panel) I did follow up on pip and found it to be superseded by vision 20 and have since upgraded 'pip', which I first had trouble getting PY3.8 to recognise. That has been sorted but the problem remained so, in the end I trashed python 3.8 and reinstalled py3.7 and the main fault disappeared. viz; The top panel has change but I don’t understand it. I assume it wants me to look up Pc\Desk…… Since then I have tried reinstalling py3.8 twice but the same problems come back. The problem comes and goes with the installation of python3.8. Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be ? If it might effect :- I did have a little trouble with the OS native Python 2.7 wanting to own the new pip installation but that was overcome. If it’s of any help this is current Py3.7 terminal list; Best regards Don B.

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