Python-tk giving Xpm errors, can't find tkinter [unstable]

[Mike Orr <mso@jimpick.com>]

When I try to run a python script that uses Tk, I get:
### BEGIN INCLUDE
_kruto[p4]:~% grail&                                             
[1] 25187
_kruto[p4]:~% python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmCreateXpmImageFromData']
python: can't resolve symbol '_IO_putc'
python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmFreeXpmImage'
python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmReadFileToXpmImage'
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/grail", line 33, in ?
    import Tkinter # Do this first to avoid confusing ni on Mac/Win
  File "/usr/lib/python1.4/tkinter/Tkinter.py", line 11, in ?
    import tkinter
ImportError: No module named tkinter

[1]  + exit 1     grail
### END INCLUDE

This just happened this week after a bulk upgrade.  (Other than that the
upgrade went very smoothly.)  By "bulk upgrade" I mean letting dselect
upgrade everything it thought necessary.

A similar problem happened to me several months ago.  I don't remember the
error messages, but all python TK programs refused to run.  It was solved
then by reinstalling tcl & tk.  But this time around, I tried reinstalling
python-tk, tcl, tk, xpm and xlib, and none of them helped.

[python-tk]
Depends: python-base (= 1.4.0-4), libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), tcl76 (>= 7.6-1),
tk42 (>= 4.2-1), xlib6 (>= 3.2-0)

ii  python-base     1.4.0-4        An interactive object-oriented 
ii  python-tk       1.4.0-4        Tk support modules for Python.
ii  libc5           5.4.33-7       The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
ii  libc6           2.0.5c-0.1     The GNU C library version 2 (run-time
ii  tcl76           7.6p2-7        The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.6 -
ii  tk42            4.2p2-7        The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.2 -
ii  xlib6           3.3.1-2        Shared libraries required by X clients
ii  xpm4.7          3.4j-0.5       X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) -
ii  xpm4g           3.4j-0.5       X Pixmap libraries (for libc6) -

I think the real problem is those Xpm messages, because Tkinter.py tries
to import first _tkinter.py and if that fails, tkinter.py.  If I import
_tkinter directly, I get fewer error messages:

_kruto[p4]:/usr/lib/python1.4/tkinter% python                    
Python 1.4 (Mar  4 1997)  [GCC 2.7.2.1 Objective-C snapshot 960906]
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import _tkinter
python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmCreateXpmImageFromData'
python: can't resolve symbol '_IO_putc'
python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmFreeXpmImage'
python: can't resolve symbol 'XpmReadFileToXpmImage'
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: Unable to resolve symbol
>>> 


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