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Hi:

Someone know if is possible install tkinter in ppythonista?

thanx

Right now it is not possible.

Do you mean that Ole includes tkinter in a future release?
IMHO extremely hard work.

See this link:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2013-March/003380.html

As far as I know, you can not (currently) use tkinter in Pythonista but as least you can (with a lot of work) build a single Python app that will run on either tkinter or Pythonista scene.

I am building a game that I want the user to be able to run on:

• Python3 using tkinter (all lowercase) or
• Python2 using Tkinter (capitalized) or
• Pythonista using scene or
• Text only mode if all else fails.

Using the MVC programming pattern, my goal is to have a single Controller and a single Model but have three different Views (tkinter, scene, text only). It will be a real test of separation of concerns. Wish me luck!

guiSystem = None
try:          # tkinter on Python3
    import tkinter
    guiSystem = 'tkinter'
except ImportError:
    try:      # tkinter on Python2
        import Tkinter as tkinter
        guiSystem = 'tkinter'
    except ImportError:
        try:  # scene on Pythonista on iOS
            import scene
            guiSystem = 'scene'
        except ImportError:
            pass

print('guiSystem:', guiSystem)