IDLE won't launch, and other frustrations

[Michael A. Covington]

Further, Python 2.3.2 has the same problem, but with 8.3 in place of 8.4
throughout.


"Michael A. Covington" <look at www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address> wrote
in message news:PoidnWghOfqve_3dRVn_iw at speedfactory.net...
> On the trail of figuring out why IDLE won't launch, look at this:
>
> Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> Tkinter._test()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\PYTHON23\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 3640, in _test
>     root = Tk()
>   File "C:\PYTHON23\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1564, in __init__
>     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
> directories:
>     {C:\WN16\LIB\TCL7.6} {C:\WN16\LIB\TCL7.6} C:/WN16/LIB/tcl8.4
> C:/Python23/lib/tcl8.4 C:/lib/tcl8.4 C:/library
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> >>>
>
>
> Here \WN16 is where *another* TCL/TK application *used* to reside.  And
the
> TCL stuff definitely *does* exist under C:\Python23\tcl\tcl8.4 (not
> lib\tcl8.4).
>
> By default does Python 2.3.3 install itself incorrectly???!!
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