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Re: error with tkinter, help

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On 4/16/2016 9:31 PM, blueridiculous@gmail.com wrote:
> So I was reading https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter for help.
 > I got to step 3 under "Checking your Tkinter support."
 > Nothing happens when I do steps 1 or 2, and when I do step 3,
 > I get this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 301, in runcode
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "C:\Python34\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 3882, in _test
>     root = Tk()
>   File "C:\Python34\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1856, in __init__
>     self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
> _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>     C:/Python34/lib/tcl8.6 C:/lib/tcl8.6 C:/lib/tcl8.6 C:/library C:/library C:/tcl8.6.1/library C:/tcl8.6.1/library
>
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
> "

The directory list is obsolete.  You should have C:/Python34/tcl
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

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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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