Tkinter and Mac OS X

[Rune Hansen]

Hi David, I believe the python (2.2.3) that comes with MacOS 10.2.x is 
unable to use Tk out of the box. In other words it's not compiled with 
the Tk libs present. Compiling Python 2.3c2 is a "no brainer", and I 
guess downloads will be availible at 
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html pending the release.
If you'd like to compile it your self follow the instructions in 
Python[src]/Mac/OSX/README

regards

/rune

David Stark wrote:
> I have Mac OS 10.2 which ships with python.  I downloaded TclTkAqua from
> ActiveState and installed it.  Then I get:
> 
> 
>>>>import Tkinter
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 35, in ?
>     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter
> 
> 
> After digging around on www.python.org I get the impression that I have to
> download the source and do my own build.  Do I really have to go through
> this?  Is the OS X distribution of python different (for a reason)?
> 
>