tkinter problems

[Jason Cole]

Hi All,
	I'm sure you all think this is yet another example of someone not being 
able to figure out how to edit autoexec.bat on Windows 95, but we a
bizarre problem
to do with good old "init.tcl" and tkinter (I found > 100 messages about
this when
searching comp.lang.python, so I'm scared I may not be seeing wood for
trees %)

	We have an installation script that attempts to install Tcl/Tk, and
it makes some edits to autoexec.bat: If it encounters the environment
variable TCL_LIBRARY
in the current autoexec.bat, it doesn't overwrite it, but appends the
new search path
into the environment variable, i.e. say it contained (as ours does ...
;-)

SET TCL_LIBRARY=C:\PROGRA~1\OTHER_APPLICATION\TCL\LIB\TCL8.0

then the install code would then add another line as follows after the
first one

SET
TCL_LIBRARY=%TCL_LIBRARY%;C:\PROGRA~1\CCDC\CONQUEST_NEW\TCL\LIB\TCL8.0

Now, it seems that when we do this, we get a message as follows

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "lib\csds.py", line 560, in ?
    a = New()
  File "lib\csds.py", line 31, in __init__
    Tk.__init__(self, parent)
  File "C:\PROGRAM FILES\CCDC\CONQUEST\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:
   
{C:\PROGRA~1\OTHER_APPLICATION\TCL\LIB\TCL8.0;C:\PROGRA~1\CCDC\CONQUEST_NEW\TCL\LIB\
TCL8.0} {} ./lib/tcl8.0 ./lib/tcl8.0 ./library ./library
./tcl8.0/library ./tcl8
.0/library

It would seem to us that tkinter does not break up the path in the
conventional way, but
treats the semi-colon concatenated list as a single entity .... is this
the case? If so,
why, and what is the alternative to using this method. (we'd really like
to sandbox our
tcl/tk on Windows95 from other junk that may or may not be present in
the system, like
you can do for unix systems, but we're not sure how to do this in a
*sophisticated* way)

Jason Cole & Ian Bruno