Python on the Power PC

[Steve Holden]

Peter Milliken wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I (think I have :-)) installed Python on my Pocket PC (obtained from
> http://fore.validus.com/~kashtan/).
> 
> There were Tkinter binaries with it so I installed those as well. When I
> attempt to run the most simplistic of python programs using Tkinter, I get
> an error message stating that Python can't find any tkinter module.
> 
> Any ideas what I have done wrong anybody?
> 
> Thanks
> Peter
> 
> import Tkinter
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>   root = Tkinter.Tk()
> 
>   root.title('Hello World?')
> 
>   root.mainloop()
> 
> 
Are you sure it didn't say "_tkinter" was what it couldn't find?

On my Windows system the Tkinter.py file tries to import an extension 
(compiled C) module called _tkinter (provided as _tkinter.dll) that 
provides the low-level Tkinter functionality. It's likely that that's 
missing.

regards
  Steve
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