Python Tkinter throwing Tcl error

Question

I am learning basic GUI in Python, and I came across a sample example to read file name from file explorer on Stack Overflow.

from Tkinter import Tk
from tkFileD         


        

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

IDLE is probably setting the path required for TCL. To find out what path is being used by IDLE, compare the output of sys.path from IDLE and without IDLE. Then you can add the location of init.tcl either using an environment variable or programatically. See Xenomorph suggestion.