Question

I’ve been following a tutorial for the tkinter interface in python and it uses the following piece of code to declare a root widget for the program which then has children widgets:

root = Tk() 

I’m getting the following error when trying to interpret this piece of code:

Global name Tk() is not defined 

I’m fairly sure this is because tkinter has changed since the tutorial; I cannot find any other tutorials that do not use snippets of code like this so they wouldn’t work either.

The question I have is in context simple, but searching, I cannot find the answer;
How can I bypass this: what has changed to the syntax of tkinter and what is the new method of sorts to declare a root widget? additionally it would be brilliant if anybody has the knowledge of tkinter to warn me whether the way in which you can add children widgets to the root has changed as well.

Thank you for any and all replies ~ Michael

Answer 1

You probably forgot from Tkinter import * at the top.