unable to import PySimpleGUI

Question

I am trying to explore PySimpleGUI. Following this link PySimpleGUI

But when I do,

import PySimpleGUI

getting error as,

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PySimpleGUI/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .PySimpleGUI import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI.py", line 4, in <module>
    import tkinter as tk
  File "/usr/local/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 tried,

sudo apt-get install python3-tk 
and
sudo apt-get install python3.7-tk 

but could not get rid of the above mentioned error.

My current system details:

OS - Ubuntu 19.04
python - Python 3.7.3
PySimpleGUI - 3.29.0
tcl - 8.6.9

How to solve this issue?

Answer 1

Now I am able to solve the issue, for that I used pyenv and install python through pyenv.

I used the following steps:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yyuu/pyenv-installer/master/bin/pyenv-installer | bash
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install -y make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev git

Add to ~/.bashrc

export PATH="~/.pyenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

Reload bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

Install python latest version

pyenv install 3.7.0

list python versions

pyenv versions

set global version

pyenv global 3.7.0

check python version

python -V

install PySimpleGUI

pip3 install PySimpleGUI

That's it, now I am able to import PySimpleGUI.

import PySimpleGUI