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Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget.

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Terry Reedy wrote:

> 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.

Yes, sorry; I meant that both the python and tcl/tk version matter.
You can find out the latter with

$ python -c 'import Tkinter as tk; print tk.TclVersion, tk.TkVersion'
8.5 8.5

>>     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).

If you don't want to compile tcl/tk yourself you need to install the tk-dev 
package. I recommend that you install libreadline-dev, too -- without 
readline it is painful to use the interactive interpreter.

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Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-09 01:58 -0400
  Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-09 10:49 -0700
    Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-09 15:45 -0400
    Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Frederic Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2012-07-09 22:47 +0200
    Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 08:23 +1000
    Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Frederic Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2012-07-10 12:03 +0200
      Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 15:11 -0700
        Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 18:06 -0700
          Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Frederic Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2012-07-11 09:59 +0200
        Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Frederic Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2012-07-12 20:53 +0200
          Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com - 2012-07-14 20:10 -0700
            Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Frederic Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2012-07-16 12:32 +0200
          Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com - 2012-07-14 20:10 -0700
        Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-13 09:26 +0200
        Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Frederic Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2012-07-13 22:24 +0200
        Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-13 19:23 -0400
        Re: Tkinter.event.widget: handler gets name instead of widget. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-14 09:47 +0200

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