help! - Python, Tkinter and IDLE

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 4, 2014, at 06:54, ugajin at talktalk.net wrote:

> I do not believe I told you as you claim, 'And you told us you installed Tcl and Tk in /Library/Frameworks. So that could be a problem.'

Sorry, I misremembered your original message, in which you said you had downloaded an installer that would install Tcl and Tk there, but that you had not run it yet.

> As I have not ported Tcl/Tk, that cannot be the problem. 
> AFAIK to run IDLE Python requires Tcl/tk. 

Indeed, IDLE requires Tcl and tk. And installing the py27-tkinter port would install MacPorts Tcl and tk.