Subprocess window won't open on Mac

[blakefindlay]

So I've been working on a rental form program for my work. Long story short I am using tkinter gui and I've set up a subprocess to open the specific rental form program from the main menu. Each .py file opens perfectly fine individually but wont open when its called from the sub-process.

I get an error in terminal that says ImportError: No module named tkinter.

For the record, all of my .py files that are part of this have tkinter imported.

Any help is appreciated

[deanhystad]

This simple example works for me, but I am using Windows instead of a mac.

import tkinter as tk
import subprocess

proc = None

def launch_proc():
    global proc
    proc = subprocess.Popen(['python', 'junk2.py'])

def kill_proc():
    global proc
    if proc is not None:
        proc.terminate()
        proc = None

root = tk.Tk()
tk.Button(root, text='Launch', command=launch_proc).pack()
tk.Button(root, text='Kill', command=kill_proc).pack()
tk.mainloop()

File junk2.py

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
tk.Label(root, text='2nd window').pack()
tk.mainloop()

Just because this works for me doesn't mean I endorse writing programs like this. Were I writing a project with multiple forms, I would probably use a notebook and make a page for each form. One application, multiple views, and a very clean way to go from one form to another.