Tkinter: Python may not be configured for Tk - Stack Overflow So appearantly many seems to have had this issue (me including) and I found the fault to be that Tkinter wasn't installed on my system when python was compiled This post describes how to solve the problem by: Removing the virtual environment python distribution install Tkinter with sudo apt-get install tk-dev (for deb) or sudo pacman -S tk (for arch manjaro) Then proceed to compile python
python - What does calling Tk () actually do? - Stack Overflow The program would run as well as it did before With all this in mind, what I'm interested in knowing is: What does calling root = tk Tk() actually do (as in, what gets initialized) and why can the previous snippet work without it? Would I run into any pitfalls or limitations if I don't call Tk() and just built my application around the Frame