[IronPython] IronPython versus Tkinter...

[Michael Foord]

Kevin Bjorke wrote:
>
> Any clues on running this under Beta7, or is it currently non-functional?
>
> I want to be able to run a GUI under both IronPython and Cpython since 
> my app's intent targets two different kinds of host machine.
>
> Current behavior:
>
> I have a Tkinter app called "smtk" which I call from this shell:
>
Tkinter is a C extension "_tkinter.pyd".

C extensions are not currently supported (nor likely to be supported) by 
IronPython.

A cross-platform GUI for IronPython/CPython doesn't currently exist - 
perhaps you can build an abstraction layer over the top of your GUI code 
which detects the underlying platform ?

Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

> import sys
>
> addThesePaths = ['c:\\Python24\\lib',
>     'c:\\Python24\\lib\\plat-win',
>     'c:\\Python24\\lib\\lib-tk',
>     'c:\\Python24',
>     'c:\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages']
>
> for p in addThesePaths:
>     print "Adding %s" % (p)
>     sys.path.append(p)
>
> import smtk
>
> Which works fine in cpython but under IronPython I get:
>
> Adding c:\Python24\lib
> Adding c:\Python24\lib\plat-win
> Adding c:\Python24\lib\lib-tk
> Adding c:\Python24
> Adding c:\Python24\lib\site-packages
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File e:\devrel\Playpen\kbjorke\python\ipsm.py, line 13, in Initialize
>   File , line 0, in __import__##3
>   File e:\devrel\Playpen\kbjorke\python\smtk.py, line 3, in Initialize
>   File , line 0, in __import__##3
>   File c:\Python24\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py, line 38, in Initialize
>   File , line 0, in __import__##3
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>
> Am I missing some important path or step?
>
> Thanks
> KB:
>
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