scotthaleen/osx_python_tkinter.md

## osx_python_tkinter.md

      
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    Fix tkinter on osx


import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'

brew install tcl-tk zlib
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/bin:$PATH"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib -L/usr/local/opt/zlib/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/include -I/usr/local/opt/zlib/include"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib/pkgconfig"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/usr/local/opt/zlib/lib/pkgconfig"
pyenv uninstall 3.8.2
PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-tcltk-includes='-I/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/include' --with-tcltk-libs='-L/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib -ltcl8.6 -ltk8.6'" pyenv install 3.8.2

pyenv shell 3.8.2

python -m tkinter -c "tkinter._test()"