While I appreciate the response, it isn't all that satisfying. Are you 
saying that Tk code is never going to work in Spyder? I like developing in 
Spyder because of its various features. Having to switch to a different 
editor if I want to use Tk would be annoying.

Eric

On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 11:00:05 AM UTC-7, Carlos Córdoba wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You need to use the IPython Console to run your code, but before doing it, 
> please run this command there:
>
>     %gui tk
>
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos
>
> El 25/03/16 a las 12:55, Eric Shain escribió:
>
> 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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