IDLE warns against an old TCL version even though I've installed a newer version

Question

I have installed ActiveTcl8.6.1.1.297588-macosx10.5-i386-x86_64-threaded on my OS X 10.9.1 . However, when I launch IDLE by running idle3 from the

Answer 1

I faced the same problem. You can solve this by downloading the Active Tcl 8.5.17 version rather than the lastest version.

Answer 2

I had this same issue after launching IDLE on OSX 10.10 with python 2.7.9 / 3.4.1 installed (and seeing the same $PATH variable information as the original poster).

I went to this python support page:

I referenced their "summary of current recommendations" chart to determine the Tcl/Tk necessary; it linked to a downloadable .DMG, which I installed and then IDLE ran without warnings.

I did not have to reinstall python.