Typically what I do in such a case is go into the interactive Python interpreter, import the module, and then print it.
E.g. for Python 2.7 on OSX: $ python Python 2.7.6+ (2.7:313d9bb253bf, Nov 25 2013, 14:05:28) [GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import tkinter import tkinter Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named tkinter >>> import Tkinter import Tkinter >>> Tkinter Tkinter <module 'Tkinter' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.pyc'> >>> And for 3.4: $ python3 python3 Python 3.4.0b1 (v3.4.0b1:3405dc9a6afa, Nov 24 2013, 16:45:59) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import Tkinter import Tkinter Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named 'Tkinter' >>> import tkinter import tkinter >>> tkinter tkinter <module 'tkinter' from '/usr/local/lib/python3.4/tkinter/__init__.py'> >>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Pierre Dagenais <pierre.dagen...@ncf.ca> wrote: > Hi, > I'm new at this stuff and I'm trying to understand what I'm doing! I > thought that when I executed "tkinter import" a file called tkinter.py > (a class) would be loaded for execution. Except when I search my system, > Ubuntu 12.04, all I find is Tkinter.py in the 2.7 directory, python3.3 > has no equivalent tkinter.py? > Can somebody explain? > > TU, > > PierreD. > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
