Subject: bug#37775: Python 2.7 not configured for Tk

From: Jesse Gibbons <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:50:32 -0600

On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 00:38 -0700, Brian Leung wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> Python 2.7 doesn't seem like it handles Tk properly right now, at least on
> my machine:
> 
> >>> import Tkinter
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/gnu/store/h2crv1mpc5qi05xdnn84fjp9g4gyicsl-python2-
> 2.7.16/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 39, in <module>
>     import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for
> Tk
> ImportError: No module named _tkinter
Python has a tk output to keep the python package small.
- If you're using tk for a personal script, you will probably need run 'guix
install python2:tk'
- If you need tk for a package input, you will need to use
'("python2-tk" ,python "tk")' or copy the input from one of the python
packages that uses tk.