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I am learning basic GUI in Python, and I came across a sample example to read file name from file explorer on
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from Tkinter import Tk
from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
Tk().withdraw() # we don't want a full GUI, so keep the root window from appearing
filename = askopenfilename() # show an "Open" dialog box and return the path to the selected file
print(filename)
This particular script is working fine when I am trying to run it in IDLE, but the same is not running if I am trying from command prompt in windows 7.
Python Version: 2.7. Here is the output error which I get.
>>> from Tkinter import Tk
>>> from tkFileDialog import askopenfilename
>>> Tk().withdraw()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\Lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1685, in __init__
self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
_tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
C:/Python27/lib/tcl8.5 D:/PyProj/lib/tcl8.5 D:/lib/tcl8.5 D:/PyProj/library D:/library D:/tcl8.5.2/library D:/tcl8.5.2/library
This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly
Any pointer to what I am missing here can be of great help.
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In case you are using Virtualenv on Windows I found a solution here: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/93
I copied the "tcl" folder from C:\Python27\ over to the root of the new Virtualenv, Tkinter.Tk() shows a new window without throwing an exception.
I am running Python 2.7 on Windows 7.
Hit a similar problem after installing Activestate Python and TCL. I found the following page solved the problem for me: ActiveState Python install problem. The fix was to copy the contents of C:\Python27\tcl
into C:\Python27\Lib
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Another potential solution (given by user i-shenl in a different ActiveState thread on the same issue) is to set the environment variable $TCL_LIBRARY
to point to the tcl library folder ("C:/Python27/tcl", in the question). If you set this system-wide or account-wide (via System Properties), it will affect other programs that use a TCL Library (if any are installed). If you're using Powershell, you can set this variable in your profile to limit its affects to programs run from the shell.
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I hit the same problem on Ubuntu 17.04 with virtualenvwrapper for 64 bit Python 2.7
I add tk and tcl library paths in local postactivate script
Go to your virtualenv: workon your-env-name
Edit local postactiave script with your favourite editor, for ex:
gedit $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postactivate
Locate tk and tcl library paths. In postactivate script, export TK_LIBRARY and TCL_LIBRARY with appropriate paths. Add this lines to your script with modified paths:
TK_LIBRARY=/home/kamil/anaconda2/pkgs/tk-8.5
TKPATH=/home/kamil/anaconda2/pkgs/tk-8.5
TCL_LIBRARY=/home/kamil/anaconda2/lib/tcl8.5
export TCL_LIBRARY TK_LIBRARY TKPATH
Restart your virtualenv: deactivate
and workon your-env-name
again.
If you are hitting this kind of error in a python -m venv NAME
kind of virtual environment (and you actually have tcl installed in your system), then you need to export the paths similarly as suggested by Kamil Czerski in a previous post for virtualenv.
To find out what are your TK and TCL paths, run a python script outside of the venv (source):
import tkinter
root = tkinter.Tk()
print(root.tk.exprstring('$tcl_library'))
print(root.tk.exprstring('$tk_library'))
TCL_LIBRARY="/tcl/path/from/step/1"
TK_LIBRARY="/tk/path/from/step/1"
TKPATH="/tk/path/from/step/1"
export TCL_LIBRARY TK_LIBRARY TKPATH
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