Question

I’m trying to import the tkinter module into my script. I have it installed since the interpreter is able to import it with no problems:

C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts>python
Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep  4 2011, 09:51:08) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tkinter
>>> 

Imports fine, no problem. But now when I try to run a script that has the line import tkinter….

C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts>t ls
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts\t.py", line 5, in <module>
    import tkinter
ImportError: No module named tkinter

where t is the name of the script and ls a command (it is a command-line interface).

How can the interpreter see it but not the script? Thanks.

EDIT:

The sys.path says, for the interpreter:

C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.24-py3.2.egg
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.15.0-py3.2.egg
C:\Windows\system32\python32.zip
C:\Python32\DLLs
C:\Python32\lib
C:\Python32
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32\lib
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin

and for the script:

C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg
C:\Windows\system32\python27.zip
C:\Python27\DLLs
C:\Python27\lib
C:\Python27\lib\plat-win
C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk
C:\Python27
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info

Answer 1

The script appears to be running with Python 2.7 but when you run the interpreter directly, it is using Python 3.2. As mentioned by @DSM, the name of Tkinter was different (perhaps there are other differences?).