[Tkinter-discuss] Help

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<AANLkTik9cnFhXMzHycvL2iDid=8qK43=JP=y_Q4Uwojf at mail.gmail.com>,
 "Michael O'Donnell" <michael.odonnell at uam.es> wrote:
> A solution here (but not for beginners to programming) is
> to compile python yourself, and tell the compile script
> where to look for TCL/TK.
> 
>  A comment from somewhere else
> and 2 years old or so. Hopefully things are still the same:
> 
> --------------------
> [Kevin's post of 6.Oct, 02:58]
> You can avoid this problem by building Python yourself and putting
> /Library/Frameworks first on the search path for Tcl/Tk. Look in
> setup.py in the source code, around line  1438 (in the
> 'detect_tkinter_darwin' function), and either comment out
> /System/Library or put it underneath /Library/Frameworks. This is what
> the official build from Python.org should do--look first in
> /Library/Frameworks and then fall back on /System/Library/Frameworks.
> I'm not sure why it doesn't.
> -------------------

There's no need to build it yourself.  All recent (within the past two 
years at least) python.org installers are built this way, so that they 
will use the ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.4 (or, with the 2.7 and 3.2 
64-bit/32-bit 10.6 installers, 8.5) if it is available at runtime (in 
/Library/Frameworks) and, if not, fall back to the Apple-supplied 
versions in /System/Library/Frameworks/).

You can check for yourself:

$ otool -L $(python3.1 -c 'import _tkinter;print(_tkinter.__file__)')
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/lib-dynlo
ad/_tkinter.so:
   /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.4/Tcl (compatibility 
version 8.4.0, current version 8.4.19)
   /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Tk (compatibility 
version 8.4.0, current version 8.4.19)
   /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 
47.1.0)
   /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current 
version 88.3.10)

You should see /Library/Frameworks/Tcl... rather than /System/Library/...

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org