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Vanna
Vanna

Reputation: 11

Can't use Tkinter in Spyder 3.2.4

I'm trying to do a really basic homework assignment, but can't get past the first step. I try to import Tkinter using "import tkinter" or "from tkinter import *" but neither are work. It says "label" and "button" and such are undefined. I'm sure its an easy fix but I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, as I copied simple code from my textbook just to test it and it's still not working. Here's my code.

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()
label = Label(window, text = "This is a label.")
button = Button(window, text = "Press")
label.pack()
button.pack()

window.mainloop()

But I get the yellow warning signs on lines 1, 3, 4 and 5. Line 1: 'from tkinter import *' used; unable to detect undefined names Lines 3-5: (blank) may be undefined, or defined from star inputs: tkinter

I dont know what I'm doing wrong. I'm sure its simple. And I've searched the web but can't find a solution. I know very little about coding.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7461

Answers (2)

Cristian Guancha
Cristian Guancha

Reputation: 21

I could do it like that:

from tkinter import Tk
raiz = Tk()
raiz.mainloop()

I am using Python 3.7.1

Upvotes: 2

James
James

Reputation: 36736

The yellow triangles are warnings, not errors. The Spyder IDE is checking that every callable has been defined. In this case, it see that you are calling Tk(), Label(...), and Button(...), but they have not been defined or explicitly imported anywhere in your script.

Spyder knows nothing about what functions, classes, or modules are included in tkinter, so when you use the line 

from tkinter import *

it has no idea what is included in the *, and it gives you a warning to that effect.

Doing * imports to the global is not a great practice anyhow, you don't know what is in your namespace. Instead, explicitly import what you are using. If you use the line:

from tkinter import Tk, Label, Button

all of the warnings will vanish.

Upvotes: 3

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