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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.3.4-1
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 18:22:49 +0200
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* Jason Tishler (2004-06-11 20:17 +0100)
> New News:
> === ====
> I have updated the version of Python to 2.3.4-1.  The tarballs should be
> available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly.
> 
> The following is the only notable change since the previous release:
> 
>     o upgrade to Python 2.3.4
> 
> Old News:
> === ====
> Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
> language.  If interested, see the Python web site for more details:
>                                                                    
>     http://www.python.org/                                         
> 
> Please read the README file:
>                             
>     /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/python-2.3.4.README

There is an issue with this release that wasn't there in 2.3.3r2. I'm
importing EasyGUI and get the following traceback:

Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun 11 2004, 11:50:43) 
[GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/thorsten/python/.pythonrc.py", line 3, in ?
    import easygui, \
  File "/home/thorsten/python/modules/easygui.py", line 47, in ?
    from Tkinter import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured
for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter

There is a section about _tkinter in the Readme:

2. The _tkinter extension module will only be built if the
XFree86-prog package is installed.                                                                  
                                                                                       
4. _tkinter users should note that Cygwin tcltk is really a Win32                      
package and hence, does *not* understand Cygwin style paths.  To use
the _tkinter module you must define the following environment
variables:
                                                                                       
    $ export TCL_LIBRARY=$(cygpath -w /usr/share/tcl$version)                          
    $ export TK_LIBRARY=$(cygpath -w /usr/share/tk$version)
    
I /have/ XFree installed and I never needed to set those TCL_
variables. So why did I have _tkinter with 2.3.3.r2 and not with
2.3.4r1?!


Thorsten


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