Tkinter is not a module in Ubuntu 20.04

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I was on my computer and I was trying to code some tkinter code but when I put the starters in Pycharm, there was an error saying that Tkinter is not a module and then I tested it as tkinter and it was also not found. Can someone please help me get this sorted out as I really want to do some coding and this is slowing it down.

Thanks!

Asked By: Travis JE

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Answer 1

Is it installed on your OS? You can try sudo apt install python3-tk or sudo apt install python-tk.

You could also try installing it via pip: pip install python-tk

Answered By: Aron Smalec

Answer 2

For Python 3, beyond installing with

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

the following will help to get it to work:

instead of
from Tkinter import * use from tkinter import *

or generic suitable for both Python2 and Python 3

import sys

if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
    from tkinter import *
else:
    from Tkinter import *

Similarly:
instead of import Tkinter as tk use import tkinter as tk

or generic suitable for both Python2 and Python 3

import sys
if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
    import tkinter as tk
else:
    import Tkinter as tk

Answered By: William

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