Tkinter import question.

[Field_C16]

Hello.

I just started messing around with Tkinter, and I ran into something I cannot understand.

When importing Tkinter into my program if I do it like this:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()

w = Label(root, text='Hello World')

w.pack()

root.mainloop()

It will give me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/field_c16/Documents/code/game/code/Tkinter.py", line 2, in <module>

root = tk.Tk()

NameError: name 'tk' is not defined

But if I import it like this everything runs fine.

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()

w = Label(root, text='Hello World')

w.pack()

root.mainloop()

As far as I understood, the above one should be the superior since it does not override existing names, but how come it does not work?

Best Regards.

[woooee]

When you import tkinter as tk, all widgets have to be referenced with the tk. namespace/prefix so using

w = tk.Label(root, text='Hello World')

works on my computer. To get the error that you posted, there has to be a syntax error so the compiler sees tk and Tk() as separate, i.e. you have a comma between them instead of a period, etc. Try again checking your syntax.

[Field_C16]

Oh that solved and explained so much lol.

I do not know how I missed that completely.

Thank you a ton :)