error with tkinter, help

BlueRidiculous blueridiculous at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 00:26:49 EDT 2016


On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 10:24:32 AM UTC-7, BlueRidiculous wrote:
> 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 The directory list is obsolete.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.

So no need to "stay tuned for updates" anymore, it has been working for a day and I think that it is good now. If ever it breaks again, I'll just start a new thread. You guys can ignore this now. Thanks again to you guys for the help.



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