Circular import generating an AttributeError when importing tkinter

I have an Anaconda environment with python 3.9.1 and I'm getting the following error message when I try to import tkinter.

Traceback (most recent call last):    File "/Users/isevilla/opt/miniconda3/envs/lab/lib/python3.9/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 3418, in run_code      exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)    File "<ipython-input-2-537f0be70a2b>", line 1, in <module>      runfile('/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground/tkinter.py', wdir='/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground')    File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydev_bundle/pydev_umd.py", line 197, in runfile      pydev_imports.execfile(filename, global_vars, local_vars)  # execute the script    File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydev_imps/_pydev_execfile.py", line 18, in execfile      exec(compile(contents+"\n", file, 'exec'), glob, loc)    File "/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground/tkinter.py", line 1, in <module>      import tkinter as tk    File "/Applications/PyCharm CE.app/Contents/plugins/python-ce/helpers/pydev/_pydev_bundle/pydev_import_hook.py", line 21, in do_import      module = self._system_import(name, *args, **kwargs)    File "/Users/isevilla/Documents/Tkinter playground/tkinter.py", line 4, in <module>      root = tk.Tk()  AttributeError: partially initialized module 'tkinter' has no attribute 'Tk' (most likely due to a circular import)  

The error pops up when I'm trying to run the following simple code:

import tkinter as tk      root = tk.Tk()    myLabel = tk.Label(root, text='Hello world')  myLabel.pack()    root.mainLoop()  

Does someone know why this happen and how can I fix it?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65802471/circular-import-generating-an-attributeerror-when-importing-tkinter January 20, 2021 at 10:59AM