If I do this on MacOS Mojave in Homebrew:
$ brew install tcl-tk
$ brew install pyenv
$ pyenv install 3.7.4
$ pyenv global 3.7.4
$ python -m tkinter -c 'tkinter._test()'
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/craign/.pyenv/versions/3.7.4/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 183, in _run_module_as_main
mod_name, mod_spec, code = _get_module_details(mod_name, _Error)
File "/Users/craign/.pyenv/versions/3.7.4/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 142, in _get_module_details
return _get_module_details(pkg_main_name, error)
File "/Users/craign/.pyenv/versions/3.7.4/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 109, in _get_module_details
__import__(pkg_name)
File "/Users/craign/.pyenv/versions/3.7.4/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've been searching for days, and have tried various solutions such as here but without luck so far. Any ideas why I'm getting this error and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance!
I never got this to work. I spent a ton of time on this page as well as a number of other sites, and tried everything. It seems that Homebrew Python and Tcl-Tk are at this time not out of the box the same version, and it's a common issue. What I did end up doing was to install both pyenv and anaconda side by side as per the excellent instructions of @Simba here, and using Anaconda my Tcl-Tk commands are working fine. Posting here so that others don't fall down this rabbit hole, or if they do and find a solution, it would be wonderful to know.