Why tkinter fails on Mac

Question

I was using tkinter on Mac. But when I used the following simple code, the computer will restart.

import tkinter as tk
window = tk.Tk()

What is the problem? Thank you!

• Mac: Mojave, version 10.14.6
  
• tkinter: version 8.6
  
• python: 3.7.3

Answer 1

Seems to be like common problem python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#built-in-8-6-8 according to them

If you are using macOS 10.6 or later, the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 has serious bugs that can cause application crashes.

Rather than fixing TCL/TK I recommend you to want to reinstall a python version that satisfies the requirement & use it python.org/downloads/release/python-374