Bug 42592

Summary:	python 2.3 doesn't work with tk 8.4.x
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Grant <davidgrant>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Grant 2004-02-23 06:36:24 UTC

Python 2.3 doesn't seem to want to play with tk 8.4.  I need tk 8.4 because it's open file dialog supports opening multiple files, but tk 8.3 doesn't.

According to python's website, python 2.3 is supposed to support or come with tk 8.4.

Upgrading to tk 8.4 gives some errors, so I re-emerged python-2.3.  It fixed those errors, but now I get the error, "cannot load _tkinter module".  Looking in /usr/lib/pyton2.3/lib-dynload, I see _tkinter_failed.so.  python2.2 and python2.1 have the proper _tkinter.so module there.

I tried tk 8.4.3 and 8.4.5, but don't work with python 2.3.

Can someone first tell me, is this a bug?  Or did I do something wrong?

Comment 1 David Grant 2004-02-23 08:47:45 UTC

whoops, this bug was created twice.  See bug #42590

Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-23 08:49:11 UTC

please leave it

Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-23 08:49:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42590 ***

Comment 4 David Grant 2004-02-23 08:53:07 UTC

Sorry to be picky but isn't INVALID the correct resolution here?

It was not reported twice by two different people.  It was reported by me twice because I hit the submit button and then hit the refresh button after that accidentally.

I wouldn't be this picky normally, but you seemed to be picky enough to go to the trouble of reopening it and marking it as duplicate.  I was just curious if there is a reason?