On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:26 +0200, Peter Otten wrote: > Frederic Rentsch wrote: > > > I'm sorry I can't post an intelligible piece that does NOT work. I > > obviously can't post the whole thing. > > How about a pastebin then? Or even bitbucket/github as you need to track > changes anyway? > > > It is way too convoluted. > > "Convoluted" code is much easier to debug than no code ;) > > Another random idea: run your code on a more recent python/tcl installation. > If you are lucky you get a different error. >
So many good ideas! I can hardly keep up. Let me try anyway. I hesitate to ask dumb questions, but I guess I have to. What is python/tcl? I enlisted Google, Synaptic, apt-cache, apt-get, dpkg and scouring the profusion I couldn't detect any actionable piece of information, undoubtedly due to my modest expertise in matters of system administration. I next spent a day with an attempt to upgrade to Python 2.7.3, figuring that that might simultaneously take care of upgrading tcl. Accustomed to installing packages I had to venture into the unknown territory of compiling source, because no package was available. (Windows, Apple, yes. Linux, no). The compile went smoothly, but ended like this: ... build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found: _bsddb _curses _curses_panel _sqlite3 _ssl _tkinter bsddb185 bz2 dbm gdbm readline sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name. I didn't know what to look for in setup.py, spent a couple of hours turning stones and encountered evidence of a bunch of missing header files, probably of other modules which I had installed rather than compiled. 2.7.3 came up in terminals, but not in an IDLE window. No wonder, _tkinter was reported not found; and so many others with it that, anxious to get on, I stopped venturing further into this labyrinth, erased everything 2.7.3 and now I'm back to 2.6 and would greatly appreciate advice on upgrading python/tcl. I shall look at pastebin and bitbucket/github right away. Frederic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
