[Tutor] python3.0 and tkinter on ubuntu 8.10

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Vern Ceder <vceder at canterburyschool.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have Python 3.0/Tkinter/IDLE working fine on Ubuntu 8.10, but it takes a
> certain amount of fiddling.
>
> 1. Make sure the stock Ubuntu Python 3.0 package is not installed
>
> 2. download the Python 3.0 source from python.org
>
> 3. install the following packages: build-essential libsqlite3-dev
> libreadline5-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev
> libgdbm-dev tk-dev
>
> 4. unpack the Python source and switch to that folder
>
> 5. build Python using the standard ./configure, make, make install sequence
> - if you want more detail/help on that process, just ask...
>
> I'd be happy to explain this process in more detail if anyone wants...
>
> Cheers,
> Vern
>
Yes Vern, it works. Thank you so much.
I installed the missing packages and downloaded and installed the Python3.0
source and it's now perfect.
Thanks again

>
>  Hi Tutors,I have downloaded Python3.0 and started playing with it. I like
>> it
>> because of the utf-8 default encoding, but I'm having trouble importing
>> tkinter. I get the following:
>>
>>> >>> import turtle
>>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/turtle.py", line 107, in <module>
>>    import tkinter as TK
>>  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/tkinter/__init__.py", line 39, in <module>
>>    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for
>> Tk
>> ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>>
>>> >>> import tkinter
>>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/tkinter/__init__.py", line 39, in <module>
>>    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for
>> Tk
>> ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>>
>>> >>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>> Any idea how this can be solved on Ubuntu 8.10. I don't have this problem
>> with the default Python installation (2.5.2)
>> Thank you
>>
>
>
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> -----------------------------
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