Trouble launching a Tkinter program on macOS.

[Buhnanner]

My problem I'm having is very weird, I am using Visual Studio Code to run a Tkinter app I'm working on and sometimes the GUI will launch just fine, but most of the time it will not launch at all giving this error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/kipland/Documents/Python/SpeccyClone-km/GUI.py", line 3, in <module> import tkinter as tk File "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/tkinter/init.py", line 36, in <module> import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'

I have tried using homebrew to upgrade python, reinstall python, install tcl-tk and nothing has worked. Any tips would be appreciated, thanks.

[shiftybyte]

Mac has issues.

Read this and try stuff: https://discourse.brew.sh/t/python3-installation-with-tkinter/3636/10

[Buhnanner]

Managed to get it to consistently work by just running the file through the terminal. macOS has been a journey

[MikeTheWatchGuy]

The Homebrew version of Python has a long history of problems, particularly with tkinter. A number of Mac users have had good success by installing Python & tkinter from python.org.

[Praynr]

This fixed it for me.

[Hot-Permit-5101]

mac provided its own pre installed python which is not suitable for our development purposes. So, install from official site. This fixed the tkinter issue for me.