error with tkinter, help

BlueRidiculous blueridiculous at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 13:24:17 EDT 2016


On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 10:18:09 AM UTC-7, BlueRidiculous wrote:
> On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:30:39 PM UTC-7, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > On 4/16/2016 9:31 PM, blueridiculous at gmail.com wrote:
> > > So I was reading https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter for help.
> >  > I got to step 3 under "Checking your Tkinter support."
> >  > Nothing happens when I do steps 1 or 2, and when I do step 3,
> >  > I get this error:
> > >
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<string>", line 301, in runcode
> > >   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
> > >   File "C:\Python34\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 3882, in _test
> > >     root = Tk()
> > >   File "C:\Python34\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1856, in __init__
> > >     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
> > > _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
> > >     C:/Python34/lib/tcl8.6 C:/lib/tcl8.6 C:/lib/tcl8.6 C:/library C:/library C:/tcl8.6.1/library C:/tcl8.6.1/library
> > >
> > > This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> > > "
> > 
> > The directory list is obsolete.  You should have C:/Python34/tcl
> > How did you install Python?  The Windows PSF installer from python.org 
> > will create this directory unless you uncheck the box to include tcl/tk.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Terry Jan Reedy
> 
> What is a PSF installer? Anyway, I installed the "Windows x86 MSI installer" from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-344/ Is that correct?

Actually nevermind, I uninstalled and reinstalled Python and it works now. I remember I uninstalled and reinstalled before, and it worked, then stopped working, so I'm not sure how permanent this fix will be. Stay tuned for updates. Thanks again.



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