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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:14:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Detecting user's installed Python/Tkinter packages during install of app
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Noble Bell <noblebell@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Noble Bell <noblebell@gmail.com> wrote:
> If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically install the proper files silently?

You mean, like this?

% python -c 'import _tkinter ; print _tkinter.TCL_VERSION'
8.5

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