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Tkinter NameError only when running script from shell

I've got a Tkinter Python program, a reduced version of which can be found below:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *

filedialog.askopenfilename()

When I run this script from IDLE, I do not get any errors.

However, when run from PowerShell, using python myscript.py I get 

NameError: could not find name 'filedialog'

Windows 10 x64 on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro

Solution

  • IDLE is probably importing it already, but in general since filedialog is a tkinter module it won't get imported with the bare:

    from tkinter import *

    Include an extra:

    from tkinter import filedialog

    and you should be good to go.