Bug 110372
| Summary: | Python/Tkinter does not work because of Python - Tcl/Tk Unicode problem (UCS4 resp. UCS2) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Thomas <pushcold> |
| Component: | python | Assignee: | Mihai Ibanescu <mihai.ibanescu> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | CC: | stephen.walton |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-04-02 13:14:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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What exactly is the error you're seeing? I can answer this because I see it too:
$ 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
$ rpm -q python
python-2.2.3-7
$ rpm -q tkinter
tkinter-2.2.3-7
I've uploaded some 2.3.2 RPMs to the python.org site in the normal locations for Fedora Core 1. These seem to run Idle ok, in a quick test, so they may be worth trying. http://www.python.org/2.3.2/rpms.html Sean What is the status of this bug? I'm getting this error april 2004. I have just installed fedora Core 1 and have installed all updates. Cheers, ram. This has been fixed in Fedora Core 2 test 1, which ships Python 2.3.3 and tcl/tk 8.4 Sorry, this bug is still in NEEDINFO and didn't appear in my queries. My fault. Sorry I didn't respond sooner: for a more immediate fix, I was able to install the python 2.2.3-26 and tkinter 2.2.3-26 rpms from http://www.python.org/2.2.3/rpms.html; while they are labeled as being for RH9 they seem to work fine on FC1. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: Tkinter (RPM packacke: tkinter) provides the Python bindings for Tk (a GUI toolkit; 'Tcl/Tk'). But on Fedora Core 1, Python/Tk does not work (i.e. you are not able to run any Python application using the Tk toolkit). The problem seems to be, that Python was compiled with the UCS4 option for Fedora Core 1, whereas Tcl/Tk uses UCS2 (i.e. we have a Unicode representation problem here). One way to overcome this problem is to get the Python and Tkinter RPM packages from www.python.org (same version as Python and Tkinter on Fedora Core 1; i.e. at the moment *not* Python 2.3) and to update Python and Tkinter on Fedora Core 1 with these packages (rpm -U ...). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install the python, tcl, tk, itcl, tix, tkinter RPM packages 2. try to run any Python/Tk application (e.g. 'python Tkinter.py') Additional info: I think, Tkinter should be installed automatically on any Fedora Core System (which installs Python). Tkinter is the de facto standard GUI for Python and many Python programmers rely on it being part of Python. When installing Python from www.python.org, Tkinter is always part of the Python distribution. (At the moment, it is 'hidden' on the Fedora Core CD #3 and depends on some other packages - e.g. itcl, tix - which have to be installed first.)