tkinter problem

[Paul Simon]

"Chris Rebert" <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2863.1247095339.8015.python-list at python.org...
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Simon<psimon at sonic.net> wrote:
> I have the "tkinter" problem and need some assistance to straighten it 
> out.
> >From the web page "http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter" I tested as in 
> >"step
> 1" and cannot import "_tkinter." I do not have that file on my computer, 
> but
> do have tkinter.py in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-tk. as well as the
> directories /usr/lib/tk8.5 and /usr/lib/tcl8.5.
> This python stuff is great, but the documentation frequently
> feels like it is just a bit out of my grasp. I realize that all of this is
> free but I understand the instructions on the web page to repair only to 
> the
> point of confusion. I'm not an expert. How do I modify my python
> configuration? Is there a file that needs to be edited? Which setup.py 
> file
> do I use? Make? or python setup.py build and python setup.py install?
> Thanks. I appreciate your help.

- How did you install Python?
- What Linux distro are you using?

Cheers,
Chris
-- 
http://blog.rebertia.com
I"m using Mandriva 2008.1.  I have to tell you honestly that I'm not sure
exactly how I installed Python.  Originally I had installed 2.5 from RPM but
2.6 was not available for my distro (2008.1) in RPM.  I downloaded something
from python.org and installed.  Not sure if it was tarball or zip file.

Paul