tkinter question...

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Hi there,
When I try to run IDLE I get the error bellow. Can anybody help?
Thanks!

[fernando at exodus fernando]$ idle
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/idle", line 3, in ?
    from idlelib.PyShell import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 19, in ?
    from Tkinter import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter