Can't start IDLE on mac os x high sierra can't import Tkinter

[Cei Sanderson]

On Friday, December 15, 2017 at 12:44:14 PM UTC, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 12/15/2017 6:37 AM, ceiussandicus at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi, I've been trying to get python 3.4.3 (needed for programming course) on my mac, running High Sierra.
> > I've installed python and activetcl 8.5.18 as per instructions. When I start IDLE from finder it flashes in the dock and disappears. When I start it from terminal, I get the following response:
> > ** IDLE can't import Tkinter.
> > Your Python may not be configured for Tk. **
> > I've googled for the answer but I can't find anything, the closest I got was to this https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/2665 but I'm not sure if it is this issue or not.
> > Can someone help me get started using python?
> 
> I don't have a Mac, but I know that
> https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/
> has some fairly exacting instructions at the bottom on how to get Python 
> to find the newly installed tcl/tk.  You should probably specify rather 
> exactly what you did.  There are multiple issues on bugs.python.org and 
> questions on stackoverflow.
> 
> -- 
> Terry Jan Reedy

Thanks Terry,
I posted on here because I've struggled after trawling through Google
and following the instructions on that page.
I have installed:
ActiveTcl 8.5.18.0
then I installed
Python 3.4.3
I've found the issue by continuing to trawl a bit more, the course download for python (a few years old) pointed to the python install for 10.5 onwards not 10.6 onwards. Installed the right python and working.