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burnedfaceless
Asked: 2018-08-20 14:57:36 +0800 CST

Running Tkinter programs on Ubuntu 18.04

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I'm trying to complete this tutorial https://likegeeks.com/python-gui-examples-tkinter-tutorial/amp/.

I have the following code written

from tkinter import *

window = Tk()

window.title('Welcome to LikeGeeks app')

window.mainloop()

I have run the command 

sudo apt install python3-tk

However I am still getting the following error:

NameError: name 'Tk' is not defined

The Python version on my machine is Python 3.6.5.

Turtle graphics work fine.

edit: I renamed the file from tkinter.py to test.py and I got this error message 

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
from tkinter import *
ImportError: bad magic number in 'tkinter': b'\x03\xf3\r\n'
python tkinter

2 Answers

  1. That's actually strange. The import statement works fine (or at least doesn't raise an exception), but instead Tk() is not found. The only thing I can come up with is trying to run

    import tkinter

window = tkinter.Tk()

window.title('Welcome to LikeGeeks app')

window.mainloop()
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  2. Best Answer

    Thanks to SteelDriver for figuring this out. The file should not be named tkinter.py.

    It gave me a traceback and I was able to google it and a .pyc file was causing the error.

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