Paul Simon wrote: > "Chris Rebert" <c...@rebertia.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.2863.1247095339.8015.python-l...@python.org... > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Simon<psi...@sonic.net> wrote: >> I have the "tkinter" problem and need some assistance to straighten it >> out. >> >From the web page "http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter"; I tested as in >> >"step >> 1" and cannot import "_tkinter." I do not have that file on my computer, >> but >> do have tkinter.py in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-tk. as well as the >> directories /usr/lib/tk8.5 and /usr/lib/tcl8.5. >> This python stuff is great, but the documentation frequently >> feels like it is just a bit out of my grasp. I realize that all of this >> is free but I understand the instructions on the web page to repair only >> to the >> point of confusion. I'm not an expert. How do I modify my python >> configuration? Is there a file that needs to be edited? Which setup.py >> file >> do I use? Make? or python setup.py build and python setup.py install? >> Thanks. I appreciate your help. > > - How did you install Python? > - What Linux distro are you using? > > Cheers, > Chris > http://blog.rebertia.com > I"m using Mandriva 2008.1. I have to tell you honestly that I'm not sure > exactly how I installed Python. Originally I had installed 2.5 from RPM > but 2.6 was not available for my distro (2008.1) in RPM. I downloaded > something from python.org and installed. Not sure if it was tarball or > zip file.
Zip or tar doesn't matter, you are installing "from source". Python has to find the necessary include files for tcl/tk. These are in separate packages that you have to install before you invoke Python's configure script. I don't know what they are called on your system -- look for tk-dev.rpm, tcl-dev.rpm or similar. You may run into the same problem with other modules like readline. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
