On Oct 6, 5:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 6, 4:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm having trouble with tkinter on a new installation of Python (2.6), > > built with the framework option from source that was downloaded from > > python.org. I'm running OS 10.4 on a PowerPC G4. > > > The problem first arose when I tried to run matplotlib - it couldn't > > find tcl/tk because it was searching for 8.5, and I had 8.4.
I also had this problem. The error message at this point is ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so, 2): Library not loaded: / Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Tcl Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so Reason: image not found Note that at this point I did have Tk 8.4 installed at /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4 and this works fine with Python 2.5, so Python 2.6 seems to be looking specifically for Tk 8.5. > >I found > > and built tcl/tk 8.5, which led to a new error, reproduced below: > > RuntimeError: tk.h version (8.4) doesn't match libtk.a version (8.5) I installed Tcl/Tk 8.5 from ActiveState and got the same error. > Based on what I'm seeing in the error message and in the setup.py file > in the source code, it appears that Python 2.6 is looking in > /System/Library/Frameworks for a Tcl/Tk installation rather than in > /Library/Frameworks, which is second on the list of places to look. > Tcl/Tk 8.4 comes standard with OS X in 10.4 and 10.5, and it's > installed > in /System/Library/Frameworks. The problem is that Python 2.6 seems to > be linked against Tcl/Tk 8.5--is this correct?--and when it finds Tcl/ > tk > 8.4, it returns an error. I don't think that is quite right. In this second error, I think 8.4 is the compiled-in version, 8.5 is the version detected at runtime. 8.4 is the value of _tkinter.TK_VERSION, 8.4 is read from the Tk object. It looks to me like Python 2.6 is built against Tcl/tk 8.4 but at runtime it looks for Tcl/tk 8.5. > Should a bug report be filed against this? If the Mac build of Python > 2.6 consistently looks in /System/Library/Frameworks for Tcl/Tk, it > won't run Tkinter applications. It makes the build pretty much useless > for anyone needing it to run Tkinter apps, including Idle. I'd say > it's > a showstopper issue. I think so. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
