[Tutor] Segmentation Fault Problem

[Michael Lange]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:41:49 -0600
Anschau Gesicht <anschau at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I continue on my endless(and seemingly futile)attempt to learn a
> programming language.  Currently I'm attempting small scripts in
> Python/Tkinter.  The particular script is a textbox script at follows
> 
> #!/usr/lib/python2.2
> 
> from Tkinter import *
> from ScrolledText import *
> import sys
> 
> def die(event):
>   sys.exit(0)
> 
> root = Tk()
> f = Frame(root)
> f.pack(expand=1, fill=BOTH)
> button = Button(f, width=25)
> button["text"] = "Button"
> button.bind("<Button>",die)
> button.pack()
> 
> st = ScrolledText(f,background="white")
> st.pack()
> 
> root.mainloop()
> 
> Very simple and straight forward but if I mouseclick in the text window
> the program seg faults.  Can anyone tell me why?  As an aside, I cannot
> use idle (a text editor) because it seg faults everytime I try to
> initialize.  
> 
> Eve
> 
> P.S. My platform is RedHat Linux v 9 and Python v2.2
> 
Hi,

there is obviously something wrong with your python and/or tk installation; 
might this have something to do with the shebang line you use here??
Maybe it is just a typo, the shebang should point to your python executable,
probably #!/usr/bin/python or if you don't know the exact path #!/usr/bin/env python .
Anyway, your code should work (so should IDLE); do you use RedHat's default tk version
(which?)? Just a guess, it looks to me a little like python was trying to use another
tk version as it has been compiled for, maybe there's a problem with python2.2 and tk8.4?
I have also heard of people having problems with multiple tk versions installed.

Good luck

Michael