Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/13/2012 4:24 PM, Frederic Rentsch wrote: >> On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:26 +0200, Peter Otten wrote: > >>> Another random idea: run your code on a more recent python/tcl >>> installation. > > That might have been clearer as python + tcl/tk installation.
Yes, sorry; I meant that both the python and tcl/tk version matter. You can find out the latter with $ python -c 'import Tkinter as tk; print tk.TclVersion, tk.TkVersion' 8.5 8.5 >> 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. > > No, two completely separate actions. > >> ... 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 > > I believe _tkinter is the only one of those you need to run idle. > > You need tcl/tk installed/compiled first to compile python with > _tkinter. Easier on *nix than windows. Many *nix systems come with > tcl/tk or easily install it with their package managers (same with some > of the other prerequisites for other modules). If you don't want to compile tcl/tk yourself you need to install the tk-dev package. I recommend that you install libreadline-dev, too -- without readline it is painful to use the interactive interpreter. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
