ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'

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Bug Summary

The module cannot be imported if the tkinter module is not installed in Python.

Module version

v0.2.0

Platform version

• Python 3.7.3
• RHEL 7

Steps to reproduce

• install the 0.2.0 version

  pip install tideway==0.2.0

• import the module in your code :

     #!/usr/bin/env python3
     # coding: utf-8
     import os
     import sys
     from pathlib import Path
     import argparse
     import json
     import tideway

Actual results

The following error message appears with running the code :

    import tideway
  File "/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tideway-0.2.0-py3.7.egg/tideway/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from tideway import main, \
  File "/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tideway-0.2.0-py3.7.egg/tideway/main.py", line 4, in <module>
    from tkinter import BASELINE
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_tkinter'

Additional information

tkinter is imported in main.py as follows :

from tkinter import BASELINE

[codefitz]

Can confirm this issue. Current workaround is as follows:

From the command line, install tkinter using package manager (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt install python3-tk

[codefitz]

This will be fixed (removed) from the next update.