I think I found the problem. I created an issue for it on github. https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl/issues/103
On Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:43:40 PM UTC+1, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday, December 4, 2014 2:05:58 PM UTC-5, thr wrote: >> >> Ok, a Pkg.update() made :tk backend work, but still only with >> PYTHON=python2.7 >> >> And I'm sure that the tkAgg backend works in python3. I can import >> tkinter in all my pythons, but in Julia pyimport("tkinter") tells me: >> > > pyimport("tkinter") works for me with Python 3.2.3 on Debian. There may > be something wrong with your config? >