Re: [Matplotlib-users] _tkinter problem

2009-07-08 Thread Russell E. Owen
Your python is missing the _tkinter library, so it cannot use Tkinter. Normally if you build from source then all you have to do is build and install tcl and tk first, then build python and it should find the tcl/tk and build _tkinter (the library that links to Tcl/Tk and allows Tkinter to work

[Matplotlib-users] _tkinter problem

2009-07-07 Thread Paul Simon
I have the "tkinter" problem and need some assistance to straighten it out. >From the web page "http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter"; I tested as in "step 1" and cannot import "_tkinter." I do not have that file on my computer, but do have tkinter.py in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-tk. as well a