How to pip or easy_install tkinter on Windows

Question

My Idle is throwing errors that and says tkinter can\'t be imported.

Is there a simple way to install tkinter via pip or

Answer 1

The Tkinter library is built-in with every Python installation. And since you are on Windows, I believe you installed Python through the binaries on their website?

If so, Then most probably you are typing the command wrong. It should be:

import Tkinter as tk

Note the capital T at the beginning of Tkinter.

For Python 3,

import tkinter as tk