Thanks very much for your helpful and quick reply!

I installed Tcl8.4 from activestate, and had the same version  
conflict error when I did the Tkinter test in Python. So I  
uninstalled both Tcl8.4 and Tcl8.5 (I did sudo ./uninstall while in  
this directory, the 8.4 and 8.5 versions:  /Library/Receipts/ 
ActiveTcl-8.4.pkg/Contents/Resources)

Then I reinstalled Tcl8.4 from active state, and now it still seems  
to look for Tcl8.5 when I say "import _tkinter" in Python:

katrine-whitesons-computer:/Applications/Q/matplotlib-0.99.1.1  
katrinewhiteson$ python
Python 2.6 (trunk:66714:66715M, Oct  1 2008, 18:36:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import _tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ 
lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so, 2): Library not loaded: / 
Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Tcl
   Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/ 
lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so
   Reason: image not found

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I looked in /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework

and found 2 folders, "8.4" and "Current", the latter does not contain  
anything that says 8.5.

How can I get python to stop looking for 8.5?

thank you!
Katrine

On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Ned Deily wrote:

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> Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> added the comment:
>
> If you have installed Python 2.6.4 using the python.org OS X  
> installer, it was linked with Tk 8.4, and will not use Tk 8.5.  OS  
> X 10.4 has an old version of Tk 8.4; your best bet is to install  
> the most recent Tcl/Tk 8.4 from ActiveState Tcl/Tk.
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