can't find tk.tcl

[wes weston]

John,,
    I had the same problems installing python you did. The way I got to a fix was by
doing a find of *.dll on my tcl root - yielding a list of about six files. More than
one of these was also in c:\winnt\system32. The one causing the problem was tk80.dll.
I deleted it from sys and bingo; IDLE and Tkinter work.
        wes

John Zouck wrote:

> I had a problem that sounds like this several weeks ago, and finally found that
> there were some tcl/tk .dll files in /windows/system that , when deleted, made
> things work right. Before I found this, I tried every other kind of clean-up and
> reinstall of python to no avail. I had installed tcl/tk months (or years) before,
> which probably caused these files to be there. I don't know why it worked, but it
> did, and this is just a suggestion.
>
> wes weston wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >         At the command line prompt: "from Tkinter import *" then "w = Tk()" and
> > a "usable" tk.tcl can't be found in the several places looked at. But,
> > it's in one of them: C:\Progra~1\Tcl\lib\tk8.0.  The weirdest thing is
> > I've been running programs that use Tkinter recently on this
> > machine(WinNT Ws). It (Tkinter programs) works at work and on my
> > portable.
> >
> >         I tried a fresh install in several different places. Help!
> >
> >                 wes
>
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