Install problem WNT4.0 & TCL

[Martin Kew]

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 ?


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Regards

Martin Kew

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