[Tutor] tkSimpleDialog, Tkinter, and IDLE

[Ryan]

I don't know anything about tkSimpleDialog, but when you try "import
tkinter", make sure it's "import Tkinter". The "T" in Tkinter must be
capitalized.
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 07:09 -0800, Wayne Watson wrote:
> Is tkSimpleDialog really a part of Tkinter? The reason I ask is that it seems to be neglected in material on Tkinter.   For example, in <http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/> by Shipman. Further, I sometimes see code that has:
> 
> from tkinter import *
> import tkSimpleDialog
> 
> The from gets all the names, functions too, so why is it importing the name tkSimpleDialog. Hasn't it just been obtained with from?
> 
> When I enter import tkinter into IDLE, it objects. However, if I run a program in idle that imports it, then all is OK. What's up there?
> 
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