On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote:
> You're correct that ttk didn't come built-in to Tk until 8.5--hence the > need for the Tile package with 8.4. I believe the most recent Tile package > is 0.8 or 0.8.2, at the site you referenced. > > As for a compiler, install Apple's developer tools (Xcode and friends) and > you'll have a working gcc. The dev tools are an optional install on the DVD, > or can be downloaded from Apple. > Kevin, thanks for taking the time to reply. I have Xcode installed on one of my macs, but not on the laptop where I meant to experiment with Py 3 and Tk. I had hoped, since Tk is the default, expected, distributed-with-python GUI framework (so says the python wiki) that it would "just work." On the contrary, it appears that to make it work, I will have to install Xcode, and figure out how to do an install of this package. And there are several unknowns in that install, for OS X, beginning with, where in /Library to put it, or if not in /Library, where? Wherever, I also have to edit my .login to set PYTHONPATH appropriately so it can be found. It seems to me this all amounts to quite a steep barrier for someone to climb, just in order to try out the supposed default GUI. To me, the really puzzling question is, since this has been the case for several years (based on the history of the same error being encountered repeatedly), why is the very latest Python apparently being distributed with tkinter 8.4 but without tile? Dave Cortesi
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