On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2014-07-24, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pyl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The Python standard library includes the tkinter package, which is an >> interface to Tcl/Tk. > > That's not always true for Linux systems. AFAIK, all Linux installs > include Python (of some version or other), but they don't always > include tcl/tk and tkinter. It's usually easy enough to add them, but > but they're not really part of the "standard library" if they have to > be separately intsalled.
There are several parts of the standard library that have external dependencies (bz2, lzma, sqlite3, ssl, and tkinter, just off the top of my head), which distributors may not decide to include. That doesn't mean they're not part of the standard library, but they are optional parts. Anyway, it may still be easier to declare a dependency on tkinter than to distribute another toolkit with your app, it depends entirely on the specific circumstances. -- Zach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
