Detecting user's installed Python/Tkinter packages during install of app

[Noble Bell]

I am thinking of writing a new mac and/or windows application using python 3.x and the tkinter gui toolkit. A question that I have is this..

If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically install the proper files silently?

Thanks in advance..

Noble

[Skip Montanaro]

Post by Noble Bell
If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically install the proper files silently?

You mean, like this?

% python -c 'import _tkinter ; print _tkinter.TCL_VERSION'
8.5

Skip

[Noble Bell]

Post by Skip Montanaro

Post by Noble Bell
If my application uses a version of python/tkinter that is not on the users computer will I be able to detect that during an install and automatically install the proper files silently?

You mean, like this?
% python -c 'import _tkinter ; print _tkinter.TCL_VERSION'
8.5
Skip

Not exactly. I mean when a end user is installing my application can the installer detect the presence of the correct version of python and tkinter and if they are not present have the installer silently install them to the users machine.

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