can someone help me link the tk interface package with python on macos?
i downloaded the package from homebrew but i don't know how to "link it to python"
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I can't help you brocef
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Anonymous
||Don't worry about it. Thank you.
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Anonymous
||It should be enough to do `brew install python tcl-tk`. What errors are you getting?
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Anonymous
||It tells me that it's not finding the module.
a@as-MacBook-Pro ~ % brew install python tcl-tk
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Warning: python@3.13 3.13.1 is already installed and up-to-date.
To reinstall 3.13.1, run:
brew reinstall python@3.13
Warning: tcl-tk 9.0.1 is already installed and up-to-date.
To reinstall 9.0.1, run:
brew reinstall tcl-tk
a@as-MacBook-Pro ~ % python3 -m tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 189, in runmoduleasmain
File "", line 148, in getmoduledetails
File "", line 112, in getmoduledetails
File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/tkinter/init.py", line 38, in
import tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'
a@as-MacBook-Pro ~ % brew install python tcl-tk
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Warning: python@3.13 3.13.1 is already installed and up-to-date.
To reinstall 3.13.1, run:
brew reinstall python@3.13
Warning: tcl-tk 9.0.1 is already installed and up-to-date.
To reinstall 9.0.1, run:
brew reinstall tcl-tk
a@as-MacBook-Pro ~ % python3 -m tkinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/tkinter/init.py", line 38, in
import tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'
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Anonymous
||Thank you for your reply.
2mo|
Anonymous
||Try to set the environment vars:
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/bin:$PATH"
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/include"
export PKGCONFIGPATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib/pkgconfig”
source ~/.zshrc
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/bin:$PATH"
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/include"
export PKGCONFIGPATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib/pkgconfig”
source ~/.zshrc
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sam!f43d612d8e
||Thank you for your reply. I actually tried something similar (as instructed by ChatGPT), but it didn't work for some reason. Now, the code wasn't exactly the same as you posted, but it was similar.
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Anonymous
||brew install python-tk
2mo|
Anonymous
||This worked, thank you.
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Anonymous
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