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improve or remove parsing of Tkinter.__version__ required for newer python versions #139
Description
due to the cpython hg transition the version attribute of tkinter has been removed in python 3 and in the python 2.7 rc1 it does not contain a number anymore.
see http://bugs.python.org/issue12236
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/f3553d5083f8/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
This breaks the matplotlib build which parses version and expects a number:
OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
libpng: 1.2.44
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./setup.py", line 162, in <module>
if check_for_tk() or (options['build_tkagg'] is True):
File "/build/buildd/matplotlib-1.0.1/setupext.py", line 832, in check_for_tk
(Tkinter.__version__.split()[-2], Tkinter.TkVersion, Tkinter.TclVersion))
IndexError: list index out of range
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ddale commented on Jun 8, 2011
This issue was already addressed in commit 04b4e50 on v1.0.x-maint and 9bcca38 on master. Thank you for the report.
efiring commented on Jun 9, 2011
Those commits don't take care of version being missing in py3k. Since master is periodically merged into py3k, I am inclined to fix master to handle the missing version case along with everything else.
ddale commented on Jun 9, 2011
My mistake, thanks for catching.
efiring commented on Jun 15, 2011
Fixed in master with e4a34df