[Tutor] Tkinter: no module named messagebox

[brandon w]

On 08/13/2011 04:49 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
> brandon w wrote:
>
>    
>> I have tried to follow the tutorial I found here:
>>
>> Python 2.7 Tutorial
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh6AdDX7K7U
>>
>> This is what I have done so far:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>
>> from Tkinter import *
>> import Tkinter.MessageBox
>>
>> myapp = Tk()
>> myapp.title("This is the gui title")
>> myapp.geometry("500x500+600+600")
>> myapp.mainloop()
>>
>> I run it like this:
>>
>> $ python tktest.py
>>
>> I am getting the error message:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "tkwindow.py", line 12, in<module>
>>       import Tkinter.MessageBox
>> ImportError: No module named MessageBox
>>
>> And then after changing the uppercase to lowercase this:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "tkwindow.py", line 12, in<module>
>>       import Tkinter.messagebox
>> ImportError: No module named messagebox
>>
>>
>> How do I find the modules in Tkinter?
>>      
> The simplest approach is probably to explore your file system:
>
> Step 1: where's Tkinter?
>
> $ python -c 'import Tkinter, os; print os.path.dirname(Tkinter.__file__)'
> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk
>
> Step 2: explore the neighbourhood
>
> $ find `python -c 'import Tkinter, os; print
> os.path.dirname(Tkinter.__file__)'` -iname '*messagebox*.py'
> /usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/tkMessageBox.py
>
> Step 3: we have a candidate; let's verify:
>
> $ python
> <snip>
>    
>>>> import tkMessageBox
>>>> dir(tkMessageBox)
>>>>          
> ['ABORT', 'ABORTRETRYIGNORE', 'CANCEL', 'Dialog', 'ERROR', 'IGNORE', 'INFO',
> 'Message', 'NO', 'OK', 'OKCANCEL', 'QUESTION', 'RETRY', 'RETRYCANCEL',
> 'WARNING', 'YES', 'YESNO', 'YESNOCANCEL', '__builtins__', '__doc__',
> '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '_show', 'askokcancel',
> 'askquestion', 'askretrycancel', 'askyesno', 'askyesnocancel', 'showerror',
> 'showinfo', 'showwarning']
>    
>>>> tkMessageBox.askyesno("does that help you?")
>>>>          
> True
>
> Of course you could also consult some documentation. I usually google for
> tkinter new mexico.
> http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/dialogs.html#tkMessageBox
>
>    
>> I am running Python 2.6.6. It may be a little older and not have the
>> messagebox module.
>>      
> I think tkMessageBox has been moved to tkinter.messagebox in Python 3.
>
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I have tried # 1. with another command but all I get is an error messages.

$ python -c 'import time, os; print os.path.dirname(time.__doc__)' # 
This one gave no output.

$ python -c 'import time, strftime, os; print 
os.path.dirname(strftime.__doc__)'
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named strftime

$ python -c 'import os; from time import strftime; print 
os.path.dirname(strftime.__file__)'
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 
'__file__'

$ python -c 'import time, os; print os.path.dirname(time.__file__)'
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py", line 119, in dirname
     i = p.rfind('/') + 1
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'

$  python -c 'import time, os; print os.path.dirname(time.__package__)'
more errors

I am obviously doing something wrong.


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