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It could be that you haven't installed Tcl/Tk, but if you did install Tcl/Tk, and the Wish application works correctly, the problem may be that its installer didn't manage to edit the autoexec.bat file correctly. It tries to add a statement that changes the PATH environment variable to include the Tcl/Tk 'bin' subdirectory, but sometimes this edit doesn't quite work. Opening it with notepad usually reveals what the problem is.
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(One additional hint, noted by David Szafranski: you can't use long filenames here; e.g. use ``C:\PROGRA~1\Tcl\bin`` instead of ``C:\Program Files\Tcl\bin``.)
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How do I extract the downloaded documentation on Windows?
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Sometimes, when you download the documentation package to a Windows machine using a web browser, the file extension of the saved file ends up being .EXE. This is a mistake; the extension should be .TGZ.
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Simply rename the downloaded file to have the .TGZ extension, and WinZip will be able to handle it. (If your copy of WinZip doesn't, get a newer one from http://www.winzip.com.)
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Missing cw3215mt.dll (or missing cw3215.dll)
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Sometimes, when using Tkinter on Windows, you get an error that cw3215mt.dll or cw3215.dll is missing.
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Cause: you have an old Tcl/Tk DLL built with cygwin in your path (probably ``C:\Windows``). You must use the Tcl/Tk DLLs from the standard Tcl/Tk installation (Python 1.5.2 comes with one).
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Warning about CTL3D32 version from installer
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The Python installer issues a warning like this::
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This version uses ``CTL3D32.DLL`` which is not the correct version. This version is used for windows NT applications only.
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Tim Peters:
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This is a Microsoft DLL, and a notorious source of problems. The message means what it says: you have the wrong version of this DLL for your operating system. The Python installation did not cause this -- something else you installed previous to this overwrote the DLL that came with your OS (probably older shareware of some sort, but there's no way to tell now). If you search for "CTL3D32" using any search engine (AltaVista, for example), you'll find hundreds and hundreds of web pages complaining about the same problem with all sorts of installation programs. They'll point you to ways to get the correct version reinstalled on your system (since Python doesn't cause this, we can't fix it).
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David A Burton has written a little program to fix this. Go to http://www.burtonsys.com/downloads.html and click on "ctl3dfix.zip".