Paraview 5.7.0 - import tkinter

ParaView Support
1

Hi,
I’d like to use the pre-compiled binaries of ParaView 5.7.0 to run some python 3 scripts (which is running on a former version of paraview I compiled myself) but there seems to be a problem with the tkinter package

Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep 27 2019, 14:55:29) 
[GCC 6.3.1 20170216 (Red Hat 6.3.1-3)] on linux
>>> from paraview.simple import *
>>> from tkinter import Tk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/srit/Downloads/ParaView-5.7.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'
>>> 
resetting ...

Any clue what could be wrong? Thanks in advance!
Simon

2

tkinter is not present in the release of ParaView. You need to build ParaView yourself to be able to use it.

3

Ok, thanks!