[Python-Dev] import Tkinter fails

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Mon, 05 Feb 2001 14:43:45 -0500


> On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 07:12:44PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >On Unix, either when running from the build directory, or when running
> >the installed binary, "import Tkinter" fails.  It seems that
> >Lib/lib-tk is (once again) dropped from the default path.

Andrew replied (in private mail):
> Is this the case with the current CVS tree (as of Feb. 5)?  I can't
> reproduce the problem and don't see why this would happen.

Oops...  I got rid of my old Modules/Setup, and tried again -- then it
worked.  I should have heeded the warnings about Setup.dist being
newer than Setup!

Sorry for the false alarm!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)