Tcl wasn't installed properly

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Thu Mar 10 11:00:55 EST 2011


On 10/03/2011 15:39, Steve wrote:
> I'm a frequent user of matplotlib on my Windows XP machine.  I
> recently attempted to install a program that modified my Tcl
> installation, and I now get an error message when I attempt to plot
> anything in matplotlib.  Here is the error message:
> ---
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
>    File "C:\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 3758, in _test
>      root = Tk()
>    File "C:\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1647, in __init__
>      self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className,
> interactive, want
> objects, useTk, sync, use)
> _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following
> directories:
>      {C:\Program Files\Tcl\lib\tcl8.3} {C:\Program Files\Tcl\lib
> \tcl8.3} {C:/Prog
> ram Files/Tcl/lib/tcl8.4} C:/Python25/lib/tcl8.4 C:/lib/tcl8.4 C:/
> library
>
>
>
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> ---
> I attempted a complete reinstall of python (hoping it would reinstall
> Tcl with correct file paths), but I get the same error.  Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
> Thanks!

In my installation Tcl is in "C:\Python25\tcl", if that helps.



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