Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'bits': 0.07; 'finished,': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; '(same': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'tcl/tk': 0.09; 'terry': 0.09; '_ssl': 0.16; 'bz2': 0.16; 'idea:': 0.16; 'idle.': 0.16; 'message- id:@dough.gmane.org': 0.16; 'modules).': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'jan': 0.18; 'random': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'separate': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; 'readline': 0.29; 'no,': 0.29; 'skip:_ 10': 0.29; 'install': 0.29; 'fri,': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; '+0200,': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'another': 0.33; 'pm,': 0.35; 'next': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'modules': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'easier': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'easily': 0.39; 'build': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'managers': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'upgrading': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; 'believe': 0.69; 'day': 0.73; 'clearer': 0.84; 'otten': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'subject:gets': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:23:53 -0400 References: <1341782353.2041.136.camel@hatchbox-one> <89816e26-fc20-4cdc-ba6c-f252231d43ba@f16g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <1342119234.2313.42.camel@hatchbox-one> <1342211099.2350.68.camel@hatchbox-one> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-251-66.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <1342211099.2350.68.camel@hatchbox-one> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1342221872 news.xs4all.nl 6840 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41251 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:25297 On 7/13/2012 4:24 PM, Frederic Rentsch wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:26 +0200, Peter Otten wrote: >> Another random idea: run your code on a more recent python/tcl installation. That might have been clearer as python + tcl/tk installation. > I next spent a day with an attempt to upgrade to Python 2.7.3, > figuring that that might simultaneously take care of upgrading tcl. No, two completely separate actions. > ... build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were > not found: > > _bsddb > _curses > _curses_panel > _sqlite3 > _ssl > _tkinter > bsddb185 > bz2 > dbm > gdbm > readline > sunaudiodev I believe _tkinter is the only one of those you need to run idle. You need tcl/tk installed/compiled first to compile python with _tkinter. Easier on *nix than windows. Many *nix systems come with tcl/tk or easily install it with their package managers (same with some of the other prerequisites for other modules). -- Terry Jan Reedy