Its been several days and no one has commented on my question. Is there a 
better venue to post this?

Eric

On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 7:16:34 PM UTC-5, Eric Shain wrote:
>
> Using Spyder2 with Python 3.5 on a Macintosh, I'm having trouble with Tk. 
> Specifically I'm trying to use Tk to generate a open file dialog. Here is 
> what I type:
>
> import tkinter as tk
> from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilename
>
> root = tk.Tk()
>
> At this point, everything freezes. I get a little spinning icon and I have 
> to force quit. This all works (and more) from a separate ipython console 
> but either typed interactively or run from a file within spyder, it causes 
> spyder to freeze up.
>
> Any idea of how to fix this? I should mention I'm using the Anaconda 
> installed version of Spyder2.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Eric
>

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