> The cause of this is usually that you are using a different
> version of Python than the one you installed Tkinter into, but
> being a Linux newbie I have yet to discover how to redirect
> the 'python' command to invoke the newer version of Python.
The OS looks for the first 'python' it finds in its path.
In Linux (or other *nix OSes), you can use
bash> which python
and it will reply with which python it's pointing to. You can
then change into that directory (usually "/usr/bin") and get back
a listing of various pythons. On my Debian linux distro at home,
I get something back that looks like
bash> which python
/usr/bin/python
bash> cd /usr/bin
bash> ls -lsF python* | grep -o "python.*"
python -> python2.3*
python2.3*
python2.4*
You *should* be able to just relink the "python" link to the new
version of python:
bash> ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python
I don't know if this will cause other problems down the line for
packages that expect the system default.
Alternatively, at least on my system, you can force your choice
by explicity running "python2.3" or "python2.4" instead of just
"python".
You can determine your path via
bash> echo $PATH
along which your shell will search for an executable.
Win32 has a similar executable search path
c:\> echo %PATH%
but doesn't have something as handy as the "which" command to do
the hunting for you.
HTH,
-tkc
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