A Python Beginner on Win32

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

You also need a file called win32-all.exe which you can download from the
same place and then run it.

Also, you will probably find PythonWin a little nicer to use than IDLE -
which is part of the same file.

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Dale Strickland-Clark
Out-Think Ltd, UK
Business Technology Consultants


<yuri_leikind at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8gmhpa$jq3$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi All,
>
> When I decide to know what Python is, I downloaded the installation for
> Win32, py152.exe, and ran it.
> It installed Python and Tcl/Tk. Okey.
> Then I tried to run IDLE to see what they mean by saying "Python GUI" .
> No way. It just doesn't want to find Tcl/Tk.
> It says:
>
> Traceback (innermost last):  File "idle.py", line 3, in ?  PyShell.main()
> File "I:\programs\Python\Tools\idle\PyShell.py", line 611, in main  root =
> Tk()  File "I:\programs\Python\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 886, in
__init__
> self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className) TclError: Can't
> find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:  {} ./lib/tcl8.0
> I:/programs/Python/tcl8.0/library I:/programs/Python/Tools/library This
> probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
>
> Whatever I did, copied tcl/tk to the places where python wanted to  find
the
> - nothing!!! Is there a GUI at all?
>
> Yuri Leikind
>
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