[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac OS X 10.3 and Tkinter

Damien JACOMY djacomy at yahoo.fr
Sat Sep 11 08:51:39 CEST 2004


> Larry, 
> 
> Thanks for this piece of in formation. I haven¹t seen this page yet.
> But the problem is greater than I think.
> I can¹t use the module Tkinter without IDE,
> because when I use a windowing toolbox outside the IDE, I have another error :
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter,
> although the module _tkinter was installed by package manager.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Damien,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Damien, 
> 
> Your answer can be found in the MacPython FAQ located at
> http://www.pythonmac.org/wiki/FAQ
> I've copied the relevant FAQ below.  Good luck!
> 
> Larry 
> 
> 3.7 The IDE crashes when I run a Tkinter script (PyObjC script, wxPython
> script) 
> 
> The IDE uses the old Carbon GUI toolbox for its windowing. Trying to run a
> script that brings in its own GUI toolbox (such as Tck/Tk, Cocoa, wxWindows or
> anything else) will cause great confusion: redraws and events for the
> toolboxes will be sent to the wrong place, etc. At best things will not work
> as expected, at worst the IDE will crash.
> 
>  For the time being you should run almost all scripts that use a windowing
> toolbox outside the IDE, either with the pythonw program from a Terminal
> window or with PythonLauncher from the Finder.
>  
> On Sep 10, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Damien JACOMY wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks, 
>> 
>> the IDE crashes every time when running this test :
>> import _tkinter  => ok
>> import Tkinter  => ok
>> Tkinter._test()  => the widget open and then CRASH!!!!
>> 
>>  the stack trace in the Console window is :
>> Fatal Python error: PyEval_SaveThread: NULL tstate
>> 
>> Thanks for you help.
>> 
>> --  
>> Damien JACOMY 
>> <djacomy at yahoo.fr>
>> 
>> 
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