python / tkinter interaction

Tkinter seems to fail [root@localhost caw]# apt-get install tkinter Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done tkinter is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. [root@localhost caw]# python Python 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 15 2003, 23:33:35) [GCC 3.3.1 20030930 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3118, in _test label = Label(root, text=text) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2285, in __init__ Widget.__init__(self, master, 'label', cnf, kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1780, in __init__ self.tk.call( SystemError: Py_UNICODE and Tcl_UniChar differ in size What's the right place to help sort this out? cheers Chris -- Chris Wright Medical Director, ICU Monash Medical Centre Clayton, VIC AUSTRALIA