Importing from tkinter - Printable Version

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Importing from tkinter - dan789 - Jan-06-2019

Hello, this is not a graphics related question so I decided to put it here.

In my code, I used for import this:

import tkinter
from tkinter import *
import random

The problem here is that I don´t have to use "*", but instead of that I have to specific what do I want to import. Can you tell me, what´s the name of these libraries I have to import from tkinter module, if I used these in my program?

1. tkinter.PhotoImage(file="image.png")
2. self.canvas.create_image(100, 100, anchor=NW, image=self.image)

RE: Importing from tkinter - metulburr - Jan-06-2019

you can see what the start imports by the dir built in function

base

>>> dir()
['__annotations__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__']

import tkinter only

>>> import tkinter
>>> dir()
['__annotations__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'tkinter']

start import

>>> from tkinter import *
>>> dir()
['ACTIVE', 'ALL', 'ANCHOR', 'ARC', 'BASELINE', 'BEVEL', 'BOTH', 'BOTTOM', 'BROWSE', 'BUTT', 'BaseWidget', 'BitmapImage', 'BooleanVar', 'Button', 'CASCADE', 'CENTER', 'CHAR', 'CHECKBUTTON', 'CHORD', 'COMMAND', 'CURRENT', 'CallWrapper', 'Canvas', 'Checkbutton', 'DISABLED', 'DOTBOX', 'DoubleVar', 'E', 'END', 'EW', 'EXCEPTION', 'EXTENDED', 'Entry', 'Event', 'EventType', 'FALSE', 'FIRST', 'FLAT', 'Frame', 'GROOVE', 'Grid', 'HIDDEN', 'HORIZONTAL', 'INSERT', 'INSIDE', 'Image', 'IntVar', 'LAST', 'LEFT', 'Label', 'LabelFrame', 'Listbox', 'MITER', 'MOVETO', 'MULTIPLE', 'Menu', 'Menubutton', 'Message', 'Misc', 'N', 'NE', 'NO', 'NONE', 'NORMAL', 'NS', 'NSEW', 'NUMERIC', 'NW', 'NoDefaultRoot', 'OFF', 'ON', 'OUTSIDE', 'OptionMenu', 'PAGES', 'PIESLICE', 'PROJECTING', 'Pack', 'PanedWindow', 'PhotoImage', 'Place', 'RADIOBUTTON', 'RAISED', 'READABLE', 'RIDGE', 'RIGHT', 'ROUND', 'Radiobutton', 'S', 'SCROLL', 'SE', 'SEL', 'SEL_FIRST', 'SEL_LAST', 'SEPARATOR', 'SINGLE', 'SOLID', 'SUNKEN', 'SW', 'Scale', 'Scrollbar', 'Spinbox', 'StringVar', 'TOP', 'TRUE', 'Tcl', 'TclError', 'TclVersion', 'Text', 'Tk', 'TkVersion', 'Toplevel', 'UNDERLINE', 'UNITS', 'VERTICAL', 'Variable', 'W', 'WORD', 'WRITABLE', 'Widget', 'Wm', 'X', 'XView', 'Y', 'YES', 'YView', '__annotations__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'constants', 'enum', 'getboolean', 'getdouble', 'getint', 'image_names', 'image_types', 'mainloop', 're', 'sys', 'tkinter', 'wantobjects']

which the only thing i see that uses the start import on those two lines is the anchor setting NW which if i remember correctly you can just simply do a string

'NW'

or tkinter.NW

RE: Importing from tkinter - dan789 - Jan-06-2019

Thank you. :-) Making a string didn´t work, but method described above did. :)