Bugzilla Bug 202735

Cannot import Tkinter from python.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
$ python
Python 2.4.4 (#1, Dec 19 2007, 00:17:15)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import Tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 38, in ?
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: No module named _tkinter
>>>




# emerge -pv python

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6  USE="berkdb doc gdbm ipv6 ncurses
readline ssl tk -bootstrap -build -examples -nocxx -nothreads -ucs2" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

As a side consequence, I cannot install (upgrade) applications that use Tkinter
as matplotlib, for example.

emerge --info please.

Here is emerge --info.
BTW, this only occurs with amd64. x86 works as expected.

______________________________________________________________________
Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.22-suspend2-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-suspend2-r2 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:46:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/G/PKGS/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="pt_PT@euro"
LC_ALL="pt_PT@euro"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="pt pt_PT pt_BR en"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
PKGDIR="/G/PKGS/packages64"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 apm arts artswrappersuid asf audiofile avi
berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli
cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds
emboss encode fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif
gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick imlib
insecure-drivers ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad midi mikmod
mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses net nls nptl nptlonly
nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl pic pie png pnp ppds
pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc scanner sdk
sdl session snmp socks5 speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg tcl
tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb
userlocales v412 videos vorbis wifi wxwindows xine xml xorg xprint xv xvid
zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci
emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m
maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pt
pt_PT pt_BR en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Do you have dev-tcltk/blt installed? 

Yes, both on my x86 and amd64.

# notrash emerge -p blt

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-tcltk/blt-2.4z-r1

I had (re)emerged tcl, tk and python without any success.

Now I (re)emerged tcl, tk, blt and python and the problem went away!
So it's working now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167934 ***