Tkinter & Python 2.5 Problems on MAC OS 10.3.9

[Thomas Ploch]

Kevin Walzer schrieb:

> Thomas Ploch wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > Since this is my first post on the list, a brief introduction of myself.
> >
> > My name is Thomas, I am 26 years old, I am a student of Computational
> > Linguistics and I am a python user. :-)
> >
> > Now my problem:
> >
> > I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.4 installed:
> >
> > iPimpG4:~ profipimp$ tclsh
> > % info patchlevel
> > 8.4.4
> > %
> >
> > But when I try to import Tkinter
> >
> >>>> import Tkinter
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File
> > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py",
> > line 38, in <module>
> >     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured
> > for Tk
> > ImportError: dlcompat: dyld:
> > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
> > can't open library: /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Tk
> > (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
> >
> >>>>
> >
> > ...this happens.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Tkinter worked perfectly with 2.3 and 2.4...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Thomas
>
> Where is your installation of Tcl/Tk? It sounds like Python can't find it.
>
> Were you using the standard MacPython builds previously, or Unix-based
> builds from Fink or DarwinPorts?

I built python from source using gcc 4.0.1, but I have solved it by
installing a version of Tcl/TkAqua, now everything runs fine.

Still I dont know why that has happened. The fink directories are in
searchpath...

Thanks for your help,
Thomas