Problem with Tk on Windows

Miki Tebeka mikit at zoran.co.il
Mon Oct 27 02:38:44 EST 2003


Hello Simon,

> Has anyone seen the follwoing message on the Windows platform
> when tring to use Tk?
> 
> ---
> 
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> root = Tkinter.Tk()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "c:\python23\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1564, in __init__
>     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
> directories:
>     c:/python23/lib/tcl8.4 c:/lib/tcl8.4 c:/library
> 
> 
> 
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> 
> ---
> 
> Anyone know the solution?
Just a guess, check if you have environment variable called TCL_HOME,
if so try to remove it.

HTH.
Miki.




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