[Pythonmac-SIG] Configuring Python for Tkinter. Please help me.

[Bob Ippolito]

On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Peter Bersch wrote:

> I am a teacher, but with Python a Newbie. On the CD (for Windows)
> encluded in the book "Python für Kids" by Gregor Lingl I found the  
> class
> "turtle".
> I would like to use the "turtle.py" in Python on my iMac with Mac OSX.
> Without success, neither with PythonIDE(Standard) nor with  
> PythonLauncher.
>
> When importing Tkinter there is a request for _tkinter, but there  
> is noc
> such file.
>
> There seems to be some configuration error in my Mac-Python.
> Could you please help me.
> Till last year I have used Oberon to teach programming and would  
> like to
> change over to Python.

On Mac OS X 10.4, this should work out of the box.  Otherwise, you  
need to install the _tkinter extension for your Python (you can  
download one from <http://pythonmac.org/packages/>), and you must  
also install TclTkAqua <http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/>.

-bob