Windows Problem: Module Name Truncation

Brian E. Gallew (mayoung@ouray.cudenver.edu)
23 Apr 1995 21:47:16 GMT

Hi. I've installed python on a Windows (yuck)
system, and the interpreter and everything
I've written in it appear to work beautifully. The
tkinter library, however, does not work. I
keep getting complaints that there is no
"create" attribute for tkinter. I have to think
that this may stem from the fact that Windows
filenames can be only 8 + 3 charcters long; many
of the python library modules were longer. I've
haphazardly truncated these, but I don't see how
they could work as planned. Isn't there a Windows
version of the library, or some sort of renaming
convention?

I've commited to using python on Windows for a project,
so any timely help would be appreciated. Thanks.

mY
mayoung@ouray.cudenver.edu