Re: error with tkinter, help

From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: error with tkinter, help
Date	2016-04-18 05:08 +1000
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:17 AM, BlueRidiculous
<blueridiculous@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How did you install Python?  The Windows PSF installer from python.org
>> will create this directory unless you uncheck the box to include tcl/tk.
>>
>> --
>> Terry Jan Reedy
>
> What is a PSF installer? Anyway, I installed the "Windows x86 MSI installer" from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-344/ Is that correct?

Yep, that answers the question! Thanks. For the TLDR version, skip to
the next email now. If you're curious, this is what Terry meant by
"PSF installer".

Python is available from a number of places. The most simple and
straight-forward installers come direct from the Python Software
Foundation, and are downloaded from python.org, which is what you've
done. You can also get prepackaged distributions from Enthought,
ActiveState, Anaconda, and other redistributors. They may charge money
for what they give you (this is legal, even with free software like
the Python interpreter), and they can promise things that the PSF
doesn't, such as support for old/obscure operating systems, guaranteed
response times on support requests, or pre-included (and
compatibility-guaranteed) third-party libraries.

What's significant here is that your problem is with the *installer*,
not with the language itself. When an organization repackages Python
in some way, they may replace the installer with something that puts
things in different places, or has different default options. It's not
very helpful for us to say "Rerun the installer, go to this point, and
tick this box" if you're actually using (say) Anaconda's installer and
it all looks different! So Terry was basically clarifying that he was
talking about the vanilla installer that you can get off python.org,
as opposed to any of the others.

Hope that helps!

ChrisA

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error with tkinter, help blueridiculous@gmail.com - 2016-04-16 18:31 -0700
  Re: error with tkinter, help Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-04-17 00:29 -0400
    Re: error with tkinter, help BlueRidiculous <blueridiculous@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 10:17 -0700
      Re: error with tkinter, help BlueRidiculous <blueridiculous@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 10:24 -0700
        Re: error with tkinter, help BlueRidiculous <blueridiculous@gmail.com> - 2016-04-18 21:26 -0700
      Re: error with tkinter, help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-18 05:08 +1000

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