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From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject: Re: [newbie] struggling wth tkinter
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 09:16:25 -0500
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 23:45:06 -0800 (PST), Jean Dubois 
<jeandubois314@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is what I get:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./feet2meters.py", line 2, in <module>
>     from tkinter import *
>   File "/home/jean/tkinter.py", line 2, in <module>
>     import Tkinter as tk
> ImportError: No module named Tkinter

Regardless of your other fixes,  you should rename the bogus file:

/home/jean/tkinter.py

You very seldom want to have files that can shadow system modules.

-- 
DaveA