Install problem WNT4.0 & TCL

[wes weston]

Martin,
	I had the exact same problem. To find the fix, I did a find on *.dll on
the tcl tree. This yielded about six files. Then I located them in
winnt/system32, or was it in system. Anyhow, it turned out to be
tk80.dll. I removed tk80.dll from system32 and all worked.
			wes

Martin Kew wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed Python a WNT4.0 machine and are having problems
> running 'idle'.  When I try to use the Idle icon the machine processed
> for a while and then returned with out a message.  I then attempted to
> run Idle manually and got the following message.  If I new a bit more
> about Tcl I would try to fix it but I figure that you might be
> interested in the default install not working.
> 
> 
> C:\Python>python c:\Python\Tools\idle\Idle.py
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "c:\Python\Tools\idle\Idle.py", line 3, in ?
>     PyShell.main()
>   File "C:\Python\Tools\idle\PyShell.py", line 611, in main
>     root = Tk()
>   File "C:\Python\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 886, in __init__
>     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>     {} ./lib/tcl8.0 C:/tcl8.0/library C:/library
> 
> 
> 
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> 
> C:\Python>
> 
> I also tried
> 
> Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> 
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> import _tkinter
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> Tkinter._test()
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\Python\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1947, in _test
>     root = Tk()
>   File "C:\Python\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 886, in __init__
>     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>     {} ./lib/tcl8.0 C:/tcl8.0/library C:/library
> 
> 
> 
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> 
> >>>
> 
> 
> Noting that I installed using py152.exe and changed the install
> directories to c:\Python and c:\Tcl. and also included c:\Python and
> c:\Tcl\bin in an effort to fix the problem. Can anyone help ?
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Regards
> 
> Martin Kew
> 
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