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IIRC, the TCL interpreter is included in the python one. The baby analogy is pretty apt, just backwards.



No, it’s not. But it comes with Tkinter, since Tk is a Tcl extension.


It is actually. Tkinter is the python interface to embedded Tk, which necessarily includes Tcl.

Larry Wall once quipped “Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers”. If only he knew...

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16439936/how-to-call-tcl...


note on this - Tkinter does come with a TCL interpreter for sure. But not all Pythons come with Tkinter (source: I've packaged Python for embedded systems)


Ahhh... I think we were talking past each other a bit above, but your comment above is clear, and probabaly what everybody in the thread really meant...




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