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Ben Mordecai
Ben Mordecai

Reputation: 695

Using Tkinter on OSX Mountain Lion 8.2

I'm working on learning to make GUIs with Tkinter for Python programs and I have run into a bunch of problems:

Attempting to run from Tkinter import filedialog I get ImportError: cannot import name filedialog. Elsewhere I have seen it called with the lowercase tkinter (which I think is for Python 3 only) but it does not recognize that as existing ImportError: No module named tkinter. Yet running from Tkinter import * works and I'm able to create the sample hello world from the tutorial.

My only guess is that it is attempting to use an obsolete version of Tkinter that shipped with OSX. Yet considering how new Mountain Lion is, I have to wonder how obsolete it would really be. My assumption is that upon installing Python 2.7 myself, if I run from IDLE, it should work, but instead I get exactly the same thing above from the IDLE shell.

So after that I tried sudo pip install tkinter and sudo pip install Tkinter from the Unix terminal, but I get back No distributions at all found for update

So I start looking into documentation on Tkinter itself, and I come across Tcl/Tk instructions for Mac OS X which states:

Important: If you are using Mac OS X 10.8, 10.7 or 10.6, use IDLE or tkinter from a 64-bit/32-bit Python installer only with ActiveTcl 8.5 installed. If you cannot install ActiveTcl 8.5, use a 32-bit-only installer instead.

So I find my OS in the table they provide and see that they recommend ActiveTcl8.5.11, but unfortunately, the download link is broken.

So I'm completely at a loss here. Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1504

Answers (1)

Bharat
Bharat

Reputation: 3000

If you want to implement a File Dialog, have a look at tkFileDialog. It is a seperate module & not part of Tkinter module.

You can use it by directly importing it:

import tkFileDialog

Upvotes: 3

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