[Pythonmac-SIG] X11 and Tkinter (was: Beginner's questions)

[Jack Jansen]

On 29-dec-03, at 18:19, Russell E Owen wrote:
>> Note that you can also do this without installing a second Python. If
>> you put _tkinter.so for X11 in, say, ~/Library/X11-Python and you add
>> that directory to $PYTHONPATH. You could create a script x11python
>> containing
>>
>> 	#!/bin/sh
>> 	PYTHONPATH=~/Library/X11-Python:$PYTHONPATH
>> 	exec /usr/bin/python "$@"
>>
>> should do the trick, I think (untested).
>
> That is a very interesting idea. I suppose one could do an x11 build 
> of python, extract _tkinter.so and then discard the build, thus saving 
> disk space and clutter over keeping two builds. But...might there some 
> simpler way to obtain an x11-based _tkinter.so?

Actually, it would be reasonably simple to create a PackMan package 
that contains an X11 _tkinter, puts it in 
/Library/Python/2.3/X11-Python and puts an x11python script in 
/usr/local/bin.

How much interest would there be in such a thing?
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