Tkinter on Mac OS crashes python

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:13 AM Chip Towner <chip at gct3engineering.com> wrote:
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> I am trying to use tkinter and when I attempt to do so Python crashes.  I am accessing Python (v 3.6.8) in Spyder (v3.6) from Anaconda.  The version of TkVersion tells me the version is 8.6 and the Anaconda environment browser tells me it is 8.6.8.
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> An example piece of code I am trying to run (pulled from the __init__.py file in the tkinter code installed by Anaconda) is provided below.  The code crashes when tk = tkinter.Tk() is called.  I have traced the crash into this method to a call to _tkinter.create().  The debugger can’t step any further.
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Possibly significant: This is not the Python provided by Mac OS; you
have multiple installations of Python.

Can you try this, please?

>>> import sys, tkinter
>>> sys.executable, tkinter.__file__

Might be that you're getting tkinter from a different installation,
which could break all manner of things. Might be not, too, but worth
checking.

ChrisA