How do I require Tkinter with distutils?

Question

I\'m trying to compile a program using distutils but I want to make sure that the user has Tkinter installed before installing my package.

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Answer 1

You can have a class that inherits from install and then do this:

from distutils.command.install import install

class Install(install):
    def run(self):
        if not check_dependencies():
             # Tkinter was not installed, handle this here
        install.run(self) # proceed with the installation

def check_dependencies():
    try:
        return __import__('Tkinter')
    except ImportError:
        return None