On Apr 8, 1:20 pm, Eclipse <pnsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > G'day All > > I was following the instructions (listed at bottom of post) from the > PythonInfo Wiki which says to run three tests. > > I ran the tests and test 1 and 2 worked > > Test 3 gave me an error - <function _test at 0x0265D430> > > can anyone help ??? > > Tks in advance > > Pete > > >>> import _tkinter > >>> import Tkinter > >>> Tkinter._test > > <function _test at 0x0265D430> > > _________________________________________________________________________ > > Checking your Tkinter support > > A good way to systematically check whether your Tkinter support is > working is the following. > > Enter an interactive Python interpreter in a shell on an X console. > > Step 1 - can _tkinter be imported? > > Try the following command at the Python prompt: > > >>> import _tkinter # with underscore, and lowercase 't' > > * If it works, go to step 2. > * If it fails with "No module named _tkinter", your Python > configuration needs to be modified to include this module (which is an > extension module implemented in C). Do **not** edit Modules/Setup (it > is out of date). You may have to install Tcl and Tk (when using RPM, > install the -devel RPMs as well) and/or edit the setup.py script to > point to the right locations where Tcl/Tk is installed. If you install > Tcl/Tk in the default locations, simply rerunning "make" should build > the _tkinter extension. > * If it fails with an error from the dynamic linker, see above > (for Unix, check for a header/library file mismatch; for Windows, > check that the TCL/TK DLLs can be found). > > Step 2 - can Tkinter be imported? > > Try the following command at the Python prompt: > > >>> import Tkinter # no underscore, uppercase 'T' > > * If it works, go to step 3. > * If it fails with "No module named Tkinter", your Python > configuration need to be changed to include the directory that > contains Tkinter.py in its default module search path. You have > probably forgotten to define TKPATH in the Modules/Setup file. A > temporary workaround would be to find that directory and add it to > your PYTHONPATH environment variable. It is the subdirectory named > "lib-tk" of the Python library directory (when using Python 1.4 or > before, it is named "tkinter"). > > Step 3 - does Tkinter work? > > Try the following command at the Python prompt: > > >>> Tkinter._test( ) # note underscore in _test( ) > > * This should pop up a small window with two buttons. Clicking the > "Quit" button makes it go away and the command return. If this works, > you're all set. (When running this test on Windows, from Python run in > a MS-DOS console, the new window somehow often pops up *under* the > console window. Move it aside or locate the Tk window in the Taskbar.) > * > > If this doesn't work, study the error message you get; if you > can't see how to fix the problem, ask for help.
Can you try Tkinter._test() instead of Tkinter._test Just Tkinter._test will go and hit its __repr__ code - i.e. representation I guess - which displays the function data instead of running actual function. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
