How to enable the use of the gui resources on mac - user-interface

Question

I am having a problem with tkinter.ttk on mac. I am using macports and python3.1. When I try to use tkinter.ttk I get very old looking gui elements.
eg: I get this
Instead of this:
The code I used is:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
root = Tk()
button = ttk.Button(root, text="Hello World").grid()
root.mainloop()
I would be happy to provide any information from my computer needed to answer this question. As I am a novice programer please tell me where to find said information.
After a bit of digging I found this:
Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Jan 16 2011, 08:02:01) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple
Inc. build 5664)] on darwin Type
"help", "copyright", "credits" or
"license" for more information.
->>> import tkinter.test.test_ttk.test_style
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/tkinter/test/test_ttk/test_style.py",
line 8, in
requires('gui') File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/test/support.py",
line 215, in requires
raise ResourceDenied(msg) test.support.ResourceDenied: Use of
the gui' resource not enabled
->>> The error I have has something to do with the fact that
"Use of thegui' resource is not
enabled".
If two more people confirm that the code in blockquotes has nothing to do with the problem I will delete it from the question.
I have a Macbook 5,2 with Snow Leopard installed. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Marlen

Answer 1

It's highly unlikely that this is related. You run the test from the Python command line, it needs to be enabled first, which is done by:
from test import support
support.use_resources = ['gui']
Then you can:
import tkinter.test.test_ttk.test_style
And see what it says (mine says nothing, but I'm on Ubuntu).