Tkinter / Idle weirdness

[Henk Csaba]

In article <mailman.1053512191.9077.python-list at python.org>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Henk Csaba wrote:
> 
>> I installed Python-2.2.2 + Tcl/Tk on my Linux + glibc-2.2.5 + gcc-3.1 system
>> from source.
>>
>> I experienced some weird behaviour that I didn't see at other installations
>> I could put my hand on: when I started Idle, it stood up, but doing *any*
>> action (pressing buttons, clicking mouse) it spit an error message like
>> this (and failed to perform the action):
> 
>> ValueError: invalid literal for int(): ??
> 
> you're using a Tk version (8.4.2) released *after* the Python 2.2.2 release.
> the Tcl/Tk folks don't always care about backwards compatibility, so all sorts
> of things can happen if you do that :-(
> 
> this has been fixed in Python 2.3.
> 

Ah so. Thanks.

>> Has anybody ever seen anybody like this?
> 
> googling for the actual error message is a good way to find out...

Yeah I know, but soo many things can cause the same error message...

 
Csaba