[Tutor] Upgrading from Python 2.5 to Python 2.6 - IDLE not working...

[Lie Ryan]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:34:54 -0500, Dan wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> This is my first post, so I apologize in advance for any etiquette
> violations.
> 
> I am interested in learning Python, and to that end, I undertook to
> upgrade my current version of Python 2.5 (available via openSUSE
> repositories and YaST) to Python 2.6.  I have Python 2.6 running
> (compiled from source [I'm not a total bonehead]) but idle gives me the
> following when I invoke it in bash:
> 
> dan at linux-ypm1:~> idle
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/idle", line 3, in <module> from idlelib.PyShell
>   import main
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 14, in
>   <module> import macosxSupport
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/idlelib/macosxSupport.py", line 6, in
> <module>
>   import Tkinter
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 39, in
>   <module> import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be
>   configured for Tk
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter dan at linux-ypm1:~>
> 
> I thought of unistalling and reinstalling (using YaST) the associated
> Python packages to make them aware of the version change, but the Idle
> package says it requires Python 2.5.2, nothing more or less, so I didn't
> attempt it.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your patience.
> 
> Dan

FYI, I've got idle running with python2.6

Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Oct 19 2008, 19:48:03) 
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
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