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Moonstone5629
Moonstone5629

Reputation: 58

Circular import generating an AttributeError when importing tkinter

I have an Anaconda environment with python 3.9.1 and I'm getting the following error message when I try to import tkinter.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/isevilla/opt/miniconda3/envs/lab/lib/python3.9/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 3418, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-2-537f0be70a2b>", line 1, in <module>
    runfile('/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground/tkinter.py', wdir='/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground')
  File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydev_bundle/pydev_umd.py", line 197, in runfile
    pydev_imports.execfile(filename, global_vars, local_vars)  # execute the script
  File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydev_imps/_pydev_execfile.py", line 18, in execfile
    exec(compile(contents+"\n", file, 'exec'), glob, loc)
  File "/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground/tkinter.py", line 1, in <module>
    import tkinter as tk
  File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydev_bundle/pydev_import_hook.py", line 21, in do_import
    module = self._system_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground/tkinter.py", line 4, in <module>
    root = tk.Tk()
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'tkinter' has no attribute 'Tk' (most likely due to a circular import)

The error pops up when I'm trying to run the following simple code:

import tkinter as tk


root = tk.Tk()

myLabel = tk.Label(root, text='Hello world')
myLabel.pack()

root.mainLoop()

Does someone know why this happen and how can I fix it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 839

Answers (1)

Vladlen stolz
Vladlen stolz

Reputation: 56

The problem is that you named your file Tkinter.py. When you do the import, python sees the file and tries to import it instead of the Tkinter library.

Rename your file, and be sure to remove Tkinter.pyc if it exists.

Upvotes: 4

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