thanks again for continuing to address my problem. all those files are present as required. This is a hard slog. Maybe I should give up and fallback to my now working win 7 system until a resolution crops up via an update/upgrade. Have a happy and peaceful Christmas
On 24 December 2015 at 22:17, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Nicky Mac <nmcelwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > C:\Users\Nick>python -m idlelib > > ** IDLE can't import Tkinter. > > Your Python may not be configured for Tk. ** > > In the 3.5 installation directory, ensure that tkinter is installed in > Lib/tkinter. There should be an "__init__.py" and several other files > such as "filedialog.py". Also ensure that the DLLs directory has the > extension module "_tkinter.pyd" and dependent DLLs "tcl86t.dll" and > "tk86t.dll". > -- Nick "Mac" McElwaine -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list