python / tkinter interaction

[Chris Wright]

Tkinter seems to fail

[root at localhost caw]# apt-get install tkinter
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
tkinter is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
[root at localhost caw]# python
Python 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35)
[GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import Tkinter
>>> Tkinter._test()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3118, in _test
    label = Label(root, text=text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2285, in __init__
    Widget.__init__(self, master, 'label', cnf, kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1780, in __init__
    self.tk.call(
SystemError: Py_UNICODE and Tcl_UniChar differ in size
>>>

What's the right place to help sort this out?

cheers

Chris
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Chris Wright
Medical Director,
ICU Monash Medical Centre
Clayton, VIC AUSTRALIA