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From: Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com>
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Subject: Re: python builds without tkinter
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:29:02AM +0300, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:16, Guy Middleton wrote:
> > On a 5.3-BETA5 system, built Python from the port, tkinter appears to
> > be missing:
> >
> >
> > $ python
> > Python 2.3.4 (#2, Sep 29 2004, 02:13:43)
> > [GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
> > information.
> >
> > >>> import Tkinter
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
> >     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured
> > for Tk ImportError: No module named _tkinter
> >
> >
> >
> > The system has tcl8.4 and tk8.4 installed, I thought the Python port
> > would be able to find these.
> 
> See /usr/ports/lang/python/pkg-message, to see why tkinter is not 
> installed by default.

Oops, I missed that.  Thanks.

 -Guy