[pypy-dev] Current status of GUI support in PyPy

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On December 16, 2015 7:05:43 AM CST, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 16 December 2015 at 12:45, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Oscar Benjamin
>> <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does tkinter work with PyPy yet (It doesn't in
>>> the version I have installed here)?
>>
>> It should work.  Did you install a recent official release, or
>compile
>> it yourself?  In the latter case, do you have the "tk-dev" headers
>> installed on your machine?  If you get an obscure crash, please open
>a
>> bug report. :-)
>
>Thanks Armin. I guess I just don't have a recent enough version. This
>machine is running Ubuntu 12.04 and I have PyPy from the repos:
>
>$ pypy
>Python 2.7.2 (1.8+dfsg-2, Feb 19 2012, 19:18:08)
>[PyPy 1.8.0 with GCC 4.6.2] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>And now for something completely different: ``pypy is a race between
>the
>industry trying to build machines with more and more resources, and the
>pypy
>developers trying to eat all of them. So far, the winner is still
>unclear''
>>>>> import Tkinter
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
>File "/usr/lib/pypy/lib-python/2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 39, in
><module>
>import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for
>Tk
>ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>
>I'll try installing a newer version...
>

The version Ubuntu 12.04 comes with is pretty old. PyPy 2.0 is WAY better.

I like Ubuntu, but I hate how packages can go out of date so easily.

>Looking here there seems to be binaries built for 12.04-14.04:
>http://pypy.org/download.html
>
>This one import tkinter without error:
>https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads/pypy3-2.4.0-linux64.tar.bz2
>
>$ bin/pypy3
>Python 3.2.5 (b2091e973da6, Oct 19 2014, 18:29:55)
>[PyPy 2.4.0 with GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import Tkinter
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>ImportError: No module named Tkinter
>>>>> import tkinter  # correct Py3 module name
>>>>>
>
>This one does not:
>https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads/pypy-4.0.1-linux64.tar.bz2
>
>$ bin/pypy
>Python 2.7.10 (5f8302b8bf9f, Nov 18 2015, 10:46:46)
>[PyPy 4.0.1 with GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import Tkinter
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>File
>"/users/enojb/src/pypy-4.0.1-linux64/lib-python/2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py",
>line 39, in <module>
>import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for
>Tk
>File
>"/users/enojb/src/pypy-4.0.1-linux64/lib_pypy/_tkinter/__init__.py",
>line 13, in <module>
>    from .tklib_cffi import ffi as tkffi, lib as tklib
>ImportError: unable to load extension module
>'/users/enojb/src/pypy-4.0.1-linux64/lib_pypy/_tkinter/tklib_cffi.pypy-26.so':
>libtcl8.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>directory
>
>Is that an obscure crash?
>
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>Oscar
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