New to Tkinter...

[Peter G Carswell]

Eric Brunel wrote:

> This is not an error. It's just the value of the _test function in the 
> Tkinter module. You don't give the URL where you found the 
> installation/test instructions, but you probably want:
>
> Tkinter._test()
>
> which *calls* the function. Tkinter._test just returns its value 
> (functions are first class objects in Python...)  

I did get a positive result on my linux desktop. However, on my laptop 
Fedora Core 1,  the Tk window shell popped up with no buttons:

Python 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35)
[GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import _tkinter
 >>> import Tkinter
 >>> Tkinter._test()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3118, in _test
    label = Label(root, text=text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2285, in __init__
    Widget.__init__(self, master, 'label', cnf, kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1780, in __init__
    self.tk.call(
SystemError: Py_UNICODE and Tcl_UniChar differ in size
 >>>

pete

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