I'm attempting to elevate my skills from "can't code my way out of a wet paper bag" by learning Python. I've programmed before in fortran, pascal, and assembly, but that was decades ago...

I'm using Downey's book Think Python - How to think like a computer scientist which is very helpful, but I need Tcl/tk and Tkinter installed to follow his examples. Since my N810 is with me all the time, I figured it would be handy to learn/code/debug on this device when I have the few spare cycles, but it seems from searching that the Maemo version of Python has these features stripped out of it.

I was wondering if it would be possible for me to add in the Tcl/tk and Tkinter functionality or do a recompile so I can get it working on my N810? Or would I simply be just descending deep down into dependency hell and should instead use a functional PC as time permits, finish the lessons in Downey's book, then move on to learning pyqt or pyside implementations?