I have two questions.
First, how can I find out what Python modules (and their versions) come with Mac OS-X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard?
Second, what is the deal with Snow Leopard and Tix? I absolutely cannot understand this. If I import Tix, no errors. If I interactively type
>>> help(Tix)
I get megabytes of info on using Tix. If I go any further this happens...
>>> root = Tix.Tk()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tix.py", line 210, in __init__
_tkinter.TclError: can't find package Tix
>>>
Oh, the widow will open but I still get the error. I click the window and notice the menu bar said, "Python". Under, "File" I see, "Run Widget Demo". I start it up and every Tix demo runs. When I click the demo's, "See code" I see it's all in (what I assume to be) Tcl.
Tcl/Tk is version 8.5x, Tix is installed and I can import it with Python but I can't use it?
Mac OS X 10.6 comes with Python 2.6.1.
The TKinter version on that platform is Apple 8.5.7 and has known problems; IDLE won't run with it, for example.
See the IDLE and tkinter with Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X page on Python.org for more details.
Terminal output for help('modules') on a 10.6 machine:
$ sw_vers -productVersion
10.6.8
$ /usr/bin/python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help('modules')
Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/pkgutil.py:110: DeprecationWarning: twisted.flow is unmaintained.
__import__(name)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/twisted/python/filepath.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
import sha
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/twisted/words/im/__init__.py:8: UserWarning: twisted.im will be undergoing a rewrite at some point in the future.
warnings.warn("twisted.im will be undergoing a rewrite at some point in the future.")
2013-01-10 09:36:31.224 Python[68800:b07] Error loading /Developer/Library/Frameworks/InterfaceBuilderKit.framework/InterfaceBuilderKit: dlopen(/Developer/Library/Frameworks/InterfaceBuilderKit.framework/InterfaceBuilderKit, 265): Library not loaded: @rpath/DevToolsRemoteClient.framework/Versions/A/DevToolsRemoteClient
Referenced from: /Developer/Library/Frameworks/InterfaceBuilderKit.framework/InterfaceBuilderKit
Reason: image not found
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/pkgutil.py:110: DeprecationWarning: The wxPython compatibility package is no longer automatically generated or actively maintained. Please switch to the wx package as soon as possible.
__import__(name)
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The pygame and vboxapi (VBoxPython2_5, VBoxPython2_6, vboxapi, vboxshell) packages are non-default add-ons installed later on that machine, the rest should be standard issue.