How to pip or easy_install tkinter on Windows

Question

My Idle is throwing errors that and says tkinter can't be imported.

Is there a simple way to install tkinter via pip or easy_install?

There seem to be a lot of package names flying around for this...

This and other assorted variations with tkinter-pypy aren't working.

pip install python-tk

I'm on Windows with Python 2.7 and can't apt-get.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The Tkinter library is built in with every Python installation. And since you are on windows, I believe you installed python through the binaries on their website?

if so, Then most probably you are typing the command wrong. It should be:

import Tkinter as tk

Note the capital T at the beginning of Tkinter.

For Python 3,

import tkinter as tk

Answer 2

When installing make sure that under Tcl/Tk you select Will be installed on hard drive. If it is installing with a cross at the left then Tkinter will not be installed.

The same goes for Python 3:

Answer 3

I solved the same problem using these two commands 100%

sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install python36u-tkinter

Answer 4

When you install python for Windows, use the standard option or install everything it asks. I got the error because I deselected tcl.