Problem w/Tkinter on 2.5 (Panther)

[w chun]

i've built a Python 2.5a0 interpreter on my iBook using gcc 3.3-1666
using the tarball from last nite...

$ uname -a
Darwin myMac.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30
20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
Macintosh powerpc
$
$ python
Python 2.5a0 (trunk, Mar 28 2006, 02:53:21)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
it has a particular symptom with Tkinter where if i run the
interactive interpreter, "import Tkinter", etc., things work great...
i can bring up and create Tk objects which work as expected using
XDarwin 1.3.0/XFree86 4.4.0, BUT when i try to run anything as a
script, even the 1-liner: "import _tkinter", it bombs out with a Bus
Error. here is the output in GDB:

$ gdb /usr/local/bin/python2.5
GNU gdb 5.3-20030128 (Apple version gdb-330.1) (Fri Jul 16 21:42:28 GMT 2004)
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "powerpc-apple-darwin".
Reading symbols for shared libraries .. done
(gdb) set args tk-test.py
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/python2.5 tk-test.py
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done
Reading symbols for shared libraries . done

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
0x901c5118 in __CFStringCreateImmutableFunnel3 ()
(gdb)

has anyone else seen this error before? the script (obviously) works
using earlier versions of Python. i have Tcl/Tk 8.4 on my system and
have T{CL,K}_LIBRARY pointed at the right place(s) when i built my 2.5
interpreter.

thanks,
-wesley
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[Russell E. Owen]

I don't know, and I'm sorry this isn't more helpful, but...if you don't
get an answer here, I suggest you post to the python apple mailing list.
If you prefer a newsgroup interface (as I do), use gmane's news server
and subscribe to gmane.comp.python.apple (you may still have to join the
mailing list to post -- I'm not sure -- but if so, you can disable mail
delivery).

-- Russell