[Tutor] Displaying Pictures & Text

[Alan Gauld]

"Patty" <patty at cruzio.com> wrote

>  I thought I wouldn't need Tkinter.  I thought Tkinter is yet 
> another addon library

Tkinter is the standfard GUI toolkit for Python and as such comes as 
part of the
standard library. (Although you do have to compile Python with that 
option
enabled in some Linux distros)

>   So I actually need both?

Yes PUIL is for transforming the graphics and creatnf the image 
object.
Tkinter can then displaty that image object in a GUI.

> And this brings me back to my _other_  question which is that
> as individuals go about downloading these addon libraries and
> their doc, how do you organize this on your computer system?

Most common add-on libraries will install themselves in the
site-packages dirtectory structure under your Python root folder
So they remain fairly well organized.

Some thoird party tools are kist a single python module and you have
to decide where to put it yourselfd. In my case thats usually in
site-packages too.

This does mean that when you upgrade you have to decide which,
if any, of your site-package files to migrate to the new version and
which to re-download. I usually opt for the re-download route just
to be safe.

Alan G.