need help using Tkinter

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Manzur Ahmed wrote:
> i wanted to ask you if one of you could help me to use Tkinter. i'm 
> trying to just create a simple GUI for which I have provided the code 
> for below.
> 
> # Simple GUI
> # Demonstrates creating a window
> 
> from Tkinter import *
> 
> # create the root window
> root = Tk ()
> 
> # modify the window
> root.title("Simple GUI")
> root.geometry("200x100")
> 
> # kick off the window's event loop
> root.mainloop()
> 
> i saved the file as both simple_gui.py and simple_gui.pyw. when i try to 
> run simple_gui.pyw i don't get anything and when i try to run 
> simple_gui.py i get the following:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Python-Study\Chapter10\simple_gui.py", line 4, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named Tkinter
> 
> i tried to google search this and there were some threads that were 
> saying to install tcl but that does not work. I did check the Lib 
> directory under the Python directory and I did not see a Tkinter module 
> anywhere which I think is the problem. Do you know how I would go about 
> with getting this module and if that is not the problem or if you think 
> it might be caused by something else, can you please give me some 
> guidance? i even reinstalled python 3.1 which i got from www.python.org 
> <http://www.python.org/>.  i still do not see the Tkinter module in the 
> lib directory.  thank you for all your help.
> 
There are some differences between Python 3.x and Python 2.x. In Python
3.1 the module is called "tkinter", not "Tkinter" (names are
case-sensitive).