Ubuntu package "python3" does not include tkinter

[Rui Maciel]

lcrocker wrote:

> I understand that for something like a server distribution, but Ubuntu
> is a user-focused desktop distribution. It has a GUI, always. 

Irrelevant.  


> The
> purpose of a distro like that is to give users a good experience. If I
> install Python on Windows, I get to use Python. On Ubuntu, I don't,
> and I think that will confuse some users. 

Nonsense.  No one is keeping anyone off tkinter.  If you want it, install 
it.  There are official packages in the repositories such as python-tk and 
python3-tk.  If someone else doesn't want them then they aren't forced to 
pack their Ubuntu systems with more cruft.  There's nothing worse than being 
forced to install piles of irrelevant and useless stuff as a dependency to a 
fundamental package.


> I recently recommended
> Python to a friend who wants to start learning programming. Hurdles
> like this don't help someone like him.

If your friend believes that having to do an extra pair of clicks or typing 
sudo apt-get install python-tk is an unbeatable hurdle then your friend's 
computer skills are awfully lacking and he won't have much success learning 
how to write programs.


Rui Maciel